When I was a child, "the older ones" read Mafalda, the Argentine comic. It was a sign of intellectual prestige, even if they didn't understand what they read. I very much doubt that the fans of those long books found out that Quino, the author of Mafalda, was laughing at the flailing jaws of the Spanish. Because Manolito, Mafalda's friend and son of Don Manuel, owner of the Don Manolo Warehouse, is the quintessential image of Galician immigrants among Argentines. Manolito is a "gross, reluctant Galician", to use an expression that I have heard on many occasions. The Spaniards - known as "Galicians" - who went to Argentina were with

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