Culture Explorer@CultureExploreX
You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours.
Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level.
His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it.
What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance.
The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards.
Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds.
A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.
