Table Topics

Hi all, I hope you had a great Tuesday. On Tuesdays I try to attend the Toastmasters club meetings. Yesterday I answered two table topics questions. One question was about if there were fewer languages would there be fewer conflicts? I said the idea of language has to be understood in a metaphorical way. If in Portuguese language there is a word for rain and in English language there is a word for rain then it is likely that there would be understanding between Portuguese speaking people and English speaking people. If however Democrat politicians in the US and Republican politicians in the US who both speak English have different opinions on taxation then there is conflict even though the language is the same. So it is not the number of languages that matters in conflict but the mind set of the people speaking the language. The next question was about my favorite charity. I said my favorite charity is Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity. Mother Theresa is a European nun who served the poorest of the poor in India. In Calcutta the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal she saw extreme poverty. So she decided to help by rescuing infants from the streets and taking care of them in Missionaries of Charity. Calcutta is notorious for so much poverty that people die on the streets. She would bring them to the missionaries of Charity and give them health care and aid. My cousin in India named her daughter Agnes after Mother Theresa. I wanted to mention the book City of Joy which was very popular in India and which depicts the extreme poverty of Calcutta. But I did not mention the book during the speech. I hope you have a lovely day!