SImply put, the best, if not only, way to grow is to get outside your comfort zone and do something that you haven't done everyday of your life. Does Shakespeare teach univeral truths or only "white" truths? I don't think it matters at all. Let the acedemics argue that. What reading Shakespeare does is make you get outside your everyday vernacular, it makes you think and shows you that Hollywood really isn't very creative.
I think all people should read something a little outside their daily experience on a regular basis, if for no other reason than to understand that segment of society or history.
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