Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author, recently went on Late Night with Seth Meyers and spoke about his experience as a creative writing teacher at MIT.
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Meyers asked if it was true that Díaz requires his students to watch Star Wars for class, and the author brilliantly explained why he does:
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He's also surprised how few college students have actually seen any of the Star Wars films.
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"I know the majority of them haven't seen it...the majority of kids have not watched any of this," Díaz said. "They're on Harry Potter — they grew up with that, they're like that's my shit. This stuff's for old people."
Díaz also talked about the importance of teaching diverse authors and stories to students.
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"Part of that complexity is of course, questions of gender," Diaz continued. "If you don't want to deal and relate and think about what it means to be a woman on this planet, you're going to have serious problems. The same with dealing with the question of ethnicity and race."