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What educational function does the fair serve?

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What educational function does the fair serve?

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World’s fairs are not about entertainment. They are not entertainment complexes at the beginning of the 20th century. People go to have fun, to be sure. But world’s fairs are billed as educational events. They are billed as the world’s universities. People go to become educated about the way the world is. This is 1904. European countries are expanding into other parts of the world, into Africa, into Asia. The United States is in the middle of an insurrection in the Philippine Islands. And at a world’s fair, what you see are many people from around the world put on display. People are put on display by anthropologists and by entertainers like Buffalo Bill. But overwhelmingly they are organized as living educational experiences for the masses. So what do people see when they go to the fair? They see people from the Philippines, they see people from Africa, they see American Indians. They see people from the northern islands of Japan. They see people from Vancouver Island, the Cowichan. T

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