Personal Narrative: My Tale Of Babel

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When I went to bed last night unusual thoughts and inquiries vexed my mind. My language teacher telling the class the tale of Babel kept approaching on my mind. It was astonishing how people had started to build a tower to challenge god therefore god cursed men and then began different languages in the world. It all started after a newly shifted couple from Nepal invited my family for supper. I was pretty nervous, as I had never met any Nepalese before. I grew up here in Shanghai, but my parents were originally from Nepal. During supper, I got to experience a language I was not familiar with. We know when a person speaks in the same language it automatically unites and binds us together. But when we don’t speak the language it isolates and

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