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According to the Bible, it all started at the Tower of Babel.   God chose to take one language spoken by all people and suddenly make people speak all sorts of different languages and “scattered them over the face of the earth”.  Why that act was deemed necessary to the creator is material for another day.  The point here is that suddenly the ability to communicate became a HUGE challenge.   No doubt it took a few years for bilingual jobs to open up at the airlines, mortgage companies, and credit card companies so people would have some kind of hope of doing business with someone whose language suddenly became foreign to their own.  It would be interesting to take a glimpse into the initial attempts of communicating after the incredible Tower experience.  Probably went kind of like when I told the Mexican Federale at a military checkpoint somewhere in Middleofnowhere, Mexico that he didn’t speak Spanish.  The guy with the machine gun held tightly against his chest just didn’t have any