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Ari, a guest blogger on Justine Larbalestier's blog, asks the rhetorical question,

You may be wondering: why should I read books about people who aren’t like me? They’re not the same gender as me, the same sexual orientation, race, or religion.

An answer: Because if you stick to reading about no one but people like you, you become more of an idiot, a word that comes from the Greek word for "private" and means people who have so little awareness of consensus reality that they can never get out of their own heads and no one else can get in.