Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 15, 2014

Netherlands? (I would hate to wonder what HER Baldo’s-age older sibling is like.)

Somebody check her visa; she looks like the illegal…I mean the undocumented type.

Interested to see where this arc goes…

She escaped from a museum exhibit?

Definitely Netherlands/Dutch. If she were German, she’d wear a dirndl and she wouldn’t be wearing wooden shoes.

During WWII the husband of one of my aunts was overseas, and he sent me a pair of wooden shoes like that. For our May Day celebration at school that year, I wore a Netherlands costume and took the shoes. For our class picture I had to stand tiptoe in the shoes, because they were way too small. My mom’s family ran to big feet, so to speak.

Knew a guy years ago who laughed every time the ‘illegal immigrant’ debate came up, because he’d skipped on his visitors visa years ago, but he knew nobody was ever going to investigate him. Because he was Irish.

Wow, you would think a Latino themed comic would be a little more sensitive to ridiculous cultural stereotypes than this.

Perhaps she is dressed in her native costume for “Show and Tell”

If She Suddenly Talks About Toaster Strudels, Walk Away Fast

The Volendam hat is worn only in… ta,da! the Volendam region of The Netherlands! … and then only on special occasions. The klompen might show up anywhere. I have a pair myself. But stereotypes are useful to quickly identify people, such as Germany’s Dirndl girls.

Hello there!

Værsågod

In the ’70s, there was a provincial cabinet member in BC who was still more Dutch than Canadian, who hated First Nations (he wanted to clear-cut the Charlotes, which were self-sustaining). He was politicking about how grateful he was for Canada liberating his town in WW-II. The leader of the Haida he was attacking, spoke up with one of the more effective squelches, “I know, I led my company into that town – and a bunch others.”

Quick! Secure the borders!

What a surprize! Will this Netherlander kid be a part of the strip for a while?

That outfit is dress-up-old-fashioned-rural Dutch, for starters. The Klompen (big wooden shoes) ditto ditto. Most Dutch kids don’t dress all that differently from Americans.

And Dirndls are waaaay south in Germany. Again, rural-old-fashioned-dress.

Exactly!!! see my comment response to @mischugenah. What a racheted mess. So I guess in my case, my mom would have to leave and my dad would be told “Welcome to America.” That sucks.

@ Mike Rofone – I agree.

@ mischugenah – Sad but oh so true.