I think they are places where they pump up bourgeois values and sell people a class identity. That is where people learn that it is wrong to say things that are platitudes, the right way to talk is to make everything "lively" and "entertaining".
Everyone knows that a good bourgeois college educated boy needs to be entertained as much as possible. That is what life is about, after all.
Everyone knows that a good bourgeois college educated boy needs to be entertained as much as possible. That is what life is about, after all.