Let’s pretend that you’re an English-speaking Canadian citizen and that you’re visiting Spain. (Unless, it turns out that you are, in which case there’s no need to pretend.) You’re visiting a website in a local internet café, and the content is complex beyond your ability to translate it out of Spanish, you’d prefer to use the site in English. You look in the footer, and find icons of flags: that of the United States, France, Spain, Japan, China and Russia