Sorry your country isn’t as culturally influential at the moment, but it’s not like most of us asked for this. Most of us don’t even want this, hell we almost switched to metric and somehow that got dropped.
LOL, as someone that was told in my elementary school years that we were going to switch to metric, I still shake my head at how stupid it is that we continue with it.
I absolutely loathed doing any kind of homework or problems in math that used imperial units. For the longest time, I hoped that cars putting in km/h and sneaking in “2 liters” for soda was a way of starting to sneak it into the brains of the resistant, but so far, it has not happened…
It’s a great way to highlight just how insular America can be to the point of just basically kicking ourselves in the balls. Here’s a great example of money lost; I could tell you stories about companies I’ve been at and the provisioning they would do for things they were building in other countries and this dumb measurement system still being an issue…
The other example is of course anything that has the word “socialism” in it or health care or correctional systems, etc. Lawd forbid we learn anything from anyone else…we are AMERICA! USA! USA! The metric system was created in France! I mean, France?!!!
LOL, as someone that was told in my elementary school years that we were going to switch to metric, I still shake my head at how stupid it is that we continue with it.
I absolutely loathed doing any kind of homework or problems in math that used imperial units. For the longest time, I hoped that cars putting in km/h and sneaking in “2 liters” for soda was a way of starting to sneak it into the brains of the resistant, but so far, it has not happened…
It’s a great way to highlight just how insular America can be to the point of just basically kicking ourselves in the balls. Here’s a great example of money lost; I could tell you stories about companies I’ve been at and the provisioning they would do for things they were building in other countries and this dumb measurement system still being an issue…
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
The other example is of course anything that has the word “socialism” in it or health care or correctional systems, etc. Lawd forbid we learn anything from anyone else…we are AMERICA! USA! USA! The metric system was created in France! I mean, France?!!!