No, look closer; that’s an edit. Someone recommended it and they edited it in.

Okay not to your extent but having been thrown into the deep end in a foreign country with zero survival skills I can relate. First yeah I don’t think most people have this kind of trouble. The key I’ve found is to beeline towards the thing closest to instructions (written or verbal) you can find. While getting panicky probably isn’t normal (no judgement though, fuck normalcy), not knowing how to do things is perfectly normal and there’s 99.9% going to be someone or something easy to find for people who have no idea what they’re doing. Well, in the developed world anyway, but you don’t exactly give me “I’mma go to Mozambique” vibes so you should be fine. Anyway yeah, I for one can say that help desks and clear signage absolutely hard-carried me through my first (and second, and third…) time at the airport; just don’t be afraid to ask for help, look things up and pay attention to signs and you’ll be fine.

Phew.

… Wow. I’m going to hope for the sake of everyone you’ll ever meet that you’re just 14 or something.

I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy, pure math and string theory, but also: Then don’t fucking answer the question. Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.

For either Mandarin or French to supplant English as the world’s most widely spoken language we would need not just a large and wealthy segment of the world that natively speaks it, but a mechanism that encourages people who know neither French nor Mandarin nor English to learn one of the former and not the latter.

The latter usually follows from the former. Wealthy people buy things, sell things, create things and go to places, all of which requires those on the other end of the deal to be able to talk to them. China is also investing in its global image, and in a few decades they’ll be forced to import immigrants to make up the shortfall in their labor force.

Similarly, Mandarin is the second language of a bunch of non-native speakers who live or work in China, most of which are presumably Chinese natives whose first language was a different dialect like Cantonese.

Chinese is also gaining steam in Russia and Africa, though admittedly it’s probably going to be at least a generation before it becomes an actually popular language to learn.

Being widely spoken in one particular region (or even a few regions) doesn’t automatically connect to being a global lingua franca. If that was the standard we’d be speaking Hindi or Mandarin here. Francophone Africa is projected to experience a popular boom, but even in the best case scenario (i.e. one where francophone Africa experiences better economic growth than other parts) that’d only make it more widespread in Africa. Globally there’s no way it can compete with the rising utility of Mandarin.

Because nobody actually answers the question. “Because it’s bullshit” is the least interesting, least informative answer you can give to a question like this, and it does nothing except make the commenter feel clever. It gets especially annoying when legitimate answers are buried under dozens of “because God doesn’t exist I’m so smart.” Now an answer could reject the premise that a creator exists and still be interesting, but it’d have to do better than the armchair anthropology everyone here seems so fond of.

So first, asking religious questions on the Fediverse is a fool’s errand, but that aside: Why not? Hell, if anything it’d be the other way around: An all-powerful being without emotion wouldn’t create anything, because they wouldn’t gain anything from doing so. Any creation by an omnipotent being would have to be an emotional affair.

But why do you want it all without normal processes?

You’re missing the point. Plenty of Americans do have ancestry that allows them to claim citizenship (and therefore easily immigrate) somewhere or another, so the first thing an American trying to immigrate will be told is to check for that. Making it clear they can’t do that is important so they can get advice they can actually use.

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has much stronger democratic institutions and systems to push back.

I strongly doubt that (the US system of checks and balances isn’t weak; it’s just thoroughly compromised), but also even the strongest fort is useless without soldiers to defend it. These systems are meant to help the elites protect liberal democracy; defensive democracy is useless (or outright counterproductive, see Germany and Palestine solidarity) if the elites don’t want to use it. There are ways for the masses to protect democracy, but those don’t happen in courts and legislatures.

Brexit had a backlash

Sure, but it doesn’t seem to have discredited its far right backers.

AfD winning would show how shit they are to other countries.

Never expect rightwingers to meaningfully engage with reality. If real-life demonstrations were enough, Trump’s victory would’ve destroyed all far-right politics everywhere. That said I’m not arguing that all European countries will go fascist, only that enough will do so that Europe as a whole will lose most of its international influence. There’s no way Britain or France for example can compete with Russia or China on the international relations front (France in fact is failing right as we speak in West Africa); it takes the whole EU to keep Europe a world power player.

They won’t because Europe is always on the loosing side and getting in any war is bad, against the us, let’s be honest, it would be a disaster.

I meant diplomatically and economically, not necessarily militarily. There are cards that can be played without getting into a hot (or even cold) war with the US; (most) European countries just don’t use them because A: Their elites profit from US war crimes too, and B: Most of them are happy being US vassal states.

The same far right rot—propelled by the same declining living standards and affordability crises—that’s destroying America from the inside is also spreading rapidly in Europe, and the only group in a position to do anything about it is the same corporate centrists who failed to prevent it in America. The fundamental cause of America’s ongoing collapse—the ruling class’s inability/unwillingness to restrain the excesses of the system against the working class—is essentially identical to what’s going on in Europe. Europe might not feel like it’s collapsing, but America didn’t ten years ago either.

No way Europe meaningfully stands up to Uncle Sam, and heinous Israeli-American war crimes are nothing new. Trump still hasn’t actually outdone the Iraq war, for example.

Kinda the former. We are witnessing the slow collapse of the US global empire (along with its European wing), and like other instances of hegemonic empires collapsing it’s not going to be pretty (think collapse of the Roman Empire) but it’s ultimately a system collapsing rather than society collapsing.

I know that’s not what you’re asking, but if you decide you want to watch more good anime without unreasonable amounts of jiggling tits, you should try Apothecary Diaries and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s end.

but that doesn’t automatically mean that going to a restaurant is a bad option.

Sure, but that’s an opinion, not a question. Clearly they consider it a bad (or at least less desirable) option.

where do their expectations come from?

If as you said this is a Russian thing and not a your parents thing, then presumably default social expectations. That’s what they’re used to, so that’s what they expect you to do, in the same way people in Western countries expect Christmas gifts. There’s no deeper answer unless you want the historical background or an explanation of why social expectations exist.

If you get it, then why are you asking?

Probably because all the criminals are too busy posting about scary Muslim knife attacks on X.