They aren't real snobs because they don't look down on you, it is in most cases not about you personally. They just think their culture is superior which sounds very arrogant but below that is just plain old narcasism. Also historically they're are from 'the cultured part of europe' and had to deal with the basic lowlife from England (have you eaten their food?), the Dutch (have you seen their clothes?) and the Germans (have you seen what their homes). It's like how the Romans looked at the Germanic tribes they just like superficial stuff like pretty food on pretty tables wearing pretty dresses. There are plenty of places people will treat you much worse and above all this is just a stereotype which is true on the one hand but there are a lot of different people living in France just like in any other country. Also they have crêpes.
I agree with you about the severeness of this event over the others (except for covid, none of those crises were global for example), but during each of those crises I've heard experts say these are things that just happen 'once every century' with an example of how that thing happened less than a century ago. Just like once-in-a-century floods, although they are definitely not as global (imagine that!). The only thing thing I haven't dealt with twice so far is a pandemic, although if you look at what's happening in the us that might also not take another century.
I hope so too, but my guess is that the most you can get is them trying harder to do it undetected. Gathering, spreading, controlling and using information seems to be their only modus operandi for getting others to do what they want.
But we also had the banking crisis, the euro crisis, the refugee crisis (which wasn't necessarily economic), COVID (which wasn't only economical) then the gas crisis / inflation crisis / cost-of-living crisis or whatever you call what happened in '22/'23 and now we have the Trump crisis / Tariff crisis or whatever you want to call the mess in right now. Sure they are all related in some way just like the world wars were related to the great depress but it sure is not feeling once-in-a-century. Hell, this one doesn't even feel once-in-a-decade.
Edit: I now see the article writes about a once in a century economic shock, which I would say is a lot less bad than a crisis, but ok.
Even 3 months ago I'd agree with you, but if I see how much unthinkable stuff Trump did get done. Who knows he'll invade Mexico, kidnaps the gangs and then hires them to take control of Canada's oil fields & pipelines. Or hires Russians to throw Canadian politicians and oil field owners out of windows until Canada surrenders.
That sure is a good thing and we're going the right direction, sure, but globally we are still burning more fossil fuels than ever and also the effect fossil fuels have on the climate take 20 years to kick in (don't ask me for details IANA scientist), so now we're experiencing the damage we did until 2005 so yeah brace yourselves
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If you're gonna reply at least the whole comment dude