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Have you heard about the Tower of Babel?

The Tower of Babel narrative in Genesis 11:1-9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. It is said that the Tower of Babel represents the pride of mankind wanting to reach the heavens and be their own gods. It represents the unification of all people in error. Because of their pride, which is a sin, the same sin that caused Lucifer to rebel, God divided them by making them speak different languages. Because of this, mankind could no longer understand each other, thus forcing them to go separate ways according to the language they spoke. In effect, there was a barrier - language barrier - that hindered them from understanding one another. This explains why there are English, Russian, Chinese, Australian, Japanese, Filipino, etc. which are distinct and unique languages spoken in the different parts of the world.

Given this background, answer the following questions:

1. If you were introduced to a foreigner whose language you don't speak, what would you do or say?

2. Assume that you're a Filipina candidate in the Miss International beauty pageant who was luckily included in the final 5. Just before you were asked to answer the final question, you felt so nervous that you seem to be not ready for any question.

Would you ask an interpreter to translate Filipino to English? Or you would still answer in pure English? Why?