It's time for the US to use the metric system
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Re: It's time for the US to use the metric system
#2No one wants to carry the political risk of trying to replace the ALL-AMERICAN measurement system, I suppose. I wonder if there are any pro-metric lobbying firms that exist...
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#3I wonder if a successful TTIP agreement would be the catalyst for this? It's inexplicable that the EU/ EEA would allow for non-metric goods to freely flow into the market.
Re: It's time for the US to use the metric system
#4No one wants to carry the political risk of trying to replace the ALL-AMERICAN measurement system, I suppose. I wonder if there are any pro-metric lobbying firms that exist...
Not to derail the conversation, what how good can a political system be if their too scared to bring something up for fear of the public when its in their own interests?
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#5In US schools are children taught metric or imperial? For example when measuring a liquid for a science experiment are measurements made in millilitres?
Re: It's time for the US to use the metric system
#6In US schools are children taught metric or imperial? For example when measuring a liquid for a science experiment are measurements made in millilitres?
In general you're taught both. All my science classes (physics, chemistry, etc) required using SI units for calculations so grams/mL/etc.
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#7Good luck trying to change something that's part of a cultural identity.
Irish are catholic not because religion is actually something positive, but because it's a contrast with the British church, and part of their cultural identity.
Re: It's time for the US to use the metric system
#8In US schools are children taught metric or imperial? For example when measuring a liquid for a science experiment are measurements made in millilitres?
It depends on the class, but most are taught both. At my school, almost everything in the science classes was done in metric, though we were of course very familiar with imperial.
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#9It's hard to "make people think" in the different unit system. I'm in the UK and people talk about sizes in feet and miles all the time even though the society is supposed to have switched to the metric system.
There are places like on product labels where both units should be mandatory. Hopefully in a few generations people will gradually switch over.
Re: It's time for the US to use the metric system
#10No one wants to carry the political risk of trying to replace the ALL-AMERICAN measurement system, I suppose. I wonder if there are any pro-metric lobbying firms that exist...
Not to derail the conversation, what how good can a political system be if their too scared to bring something up for fear of the public when its in their own interests?
Seems like an extremely common political reaction to having to cause your voters hardship or annoyance. To name one easy example, you persistently see this reaction across all the economies of the EU regarding the on going economic crisis, whether it's regarding subsidies or spending cuts or social programs or retirement or immigration.
I'd argue there are exceptionally few political systems on the planet that deal with such well.