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Article: Lack of U.S. pavilion doesn't detract from Expo 2000 world's fair.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 17, 2000
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HANOVER, Germany _ "Where are you from?" asked the young Asian woman from Vancouver, Canada, who was behind the counter of a bratwurst-and-beer kiosk.
"The United States," I answered.
"Oh, have you seen the U.S. pavilion?" she queried, a wry grin barely stretching across her face.
"Nooooo ..." I replied, waiting for the punch line.
"It's right up there," she said, gesturing up one of the many boulevards that crisscross the Expo 2000 world's fair site. "See it? It has the big M made of golden arches."
That's the running joke here at Expo, where the American presence is solely commercial: McDonald's restaurants, an ...