Can someone tell what happened today in Vienna? I saw a lot of people in Karlsplatz this afternoon and many polices there. And at night when we tried to go back to the central station the train wasn’t stop and also saw many police.
I had a similar (but obviously not as traumatic) experience! I was flying a HK airline from Shanghai to Hong Kong and heard the flight attendants speaking with passengers in Mandarin approaching from behind giving drinks. When they got to me I asked for a Coke Zero with ice in Mandarin, and the female flight attendant really rudely replied, in English: “I’m from Hong Kong, I don’t speak Mandarin.”
This was at the height of the HK riots and attacks on mainland Chinese there, so I became really angry and refused to budge. I replied in Mandarin that I had just heard her speaking Mandarin and to not be so damn rude, and to give me a Coke Zero with ice, please.
After that situation I was so annoyed that I refused to speak English at all during my entire stay.