It once used to be the habit of some “native” American citizens to sneer at recent non-English speaking immigrants who said “dis, dat, dese, and dose.” This was drawn in 1949. After the chaos of World War Two, there were many displaced persons (DPs) who came over. Things don’t change much, do they? Sorry to bring politics into this benign cartoon. It is what it is.
It once used to be the habit of some “native” American citizens to sneer at recent non-English speaking immigrants who said “dis, dat, dese, and dose.” This was drawn in 1949. After the chaos of World War Two, there were many displaced persons (DPs) who came over. Things don’t change much, do they? Sorry to bring politics into this benign cartoon. It is what it is.