Reminds me of many post apocalyptica / rebooted world stories where "ancient relics of a bygone civilization" are misused because they're not understood.

Waterworld is a good example of this. There doesn't have to be understanding or homage or "cultural appreciation" of every damn thing.

The robots simply found texts and records of them being hats, when they found one in the street. Done. They found the purpose of the object. It's a hat. They treat it as such.

And honestly as humans, we'd do well to emulate this.

I love the hypocrisy of the social mob. Everything has to be multicultural and diverse and accepting,no lines or boundaries and then in the next breath of ore their own rules and deride you for if oring the cultural differences.