From the Bible, Genesis 11.1-9
"The whole earth had one language and few words. emigrating from the east men chanced upon a plain in the the land of Shinar and settled there. they said one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. And they said, 'Come, you build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make a name, lest we be scattered all over the earth. " But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have all one language, and this is the beginning of their work and now how they plan to do will be impossible for them. So we go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. " The Lord scattered them abroad from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. For this reason it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth and there the LORD scattered them over all the earth. "
The narrative explains the mythological origin of language differences among men. The tower, brick, was built in Shinar (Mesopotamia) with the intention to get to heaven and therefore According to the biblical God, then the men all spoke the same language. The tower was also a symbol of unity among people and of humanity with God But God created confusion in the people and by ensuring that people speak different languages \u200b\u200band not understood Moreover, it prevented the construction of the tower was completed.
shown below a monologue taken from a culture of tolerance in order to claim the human and civil rights of all "minorities" and so-called "different" it goes beyond the current state to a justice he is the supreme law of the human right to be considered primarily a human being, beyond the religious connotations (or race).
"I was scorned and mocked a million times;
has laughed at my losses, my gains
he despised and mocked my nation, my friends
made cold,
burning my enemies.
And what is the reason? I am a jew.
But a jew has no eyes? A jew has no hands,
organs, limbs, senses, emotions, passions?
not relies on the same food, hurt by
not own weapons,
is not subject to the same diseases,
and ice cream is not heated by the summer of
and by the same winter as a Christian?
If you prick us, do not bleed?
if poisoned, do not die? "
Shylock's Monologue
From Merchant of Venice by William Shackspeare
From Merchant of Venice by William Shackspeare
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