While India is culturally diverse in some ways, it is also very culturally homogenous in different ways. Because Indian society generally agrees that young adults should be closely watched until about 21-23 the relative lack of some freedoms is accepted as normal.

I love how Silicon Valley and Hacker News is a west coast thing so other parts of America are irrelevant but there's an exception for India. Of course, all the Big Tech corporations are filled with them so it suddenly becomes relevant in this forum.