Judge, 1925-07-11 · page 10 of 36
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# "Betty Goes Abroad in Havre" This is a humorous cartoon about an American woman's misadventures traveling in France (Havre/Le Havre). The satire targets American cultural ignorance and ethnocentrism: **The jokes:** - Betty admires that "even children speak French" — oblivious that she's in France - She's baffled that French police ("gendarmes") can't understand her "plain French" — implying she speaks English poorly or with an American accent - She praises French trains for having more room than "the subway" — comparing European rail to American transit - The luggage-searching scene suggests customs officials ransacked her bags, which she blames on "prohibition over here" **The satire targets** American tourists' assumption that the world should accommodate their language and expectations, their provincial comparisons, and their confused assumptions about foreign customs.
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