Since they don’t care about the rest of the world using metric, they don’t consider it when they use imperial in global settings as if it were the global standard and everyone else understands it.
This is true in a lot of American things, and it ends up in the trope that Americans think the whole world is America.
American here, we only cared when it came to someone using it and not in football field lengths.
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I live in spain now, metric took about a week to figure out. Cooking was a switch since it was in grams, not cups or ounces. Oh and weight, the Doctor bust up laughing when I told him my weight before I left the states (198) and we had to remember the math to get 90kg (I’m now 75kg). But I assure you that I need to use Freedom units when talking to friends. Telling them it was 20 today irritates them to levels unknown because I’m forcing math.
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Americans don’t care that Europeans use metric but Europeans always have a lot to say about Imperial, why is that?
That’s part of the problem.
Since they don’t care about the rest of the world using metric, they don’t consider it when they use imperial in global settings as if it were the global standard and everyone else understands it.
This is true in a lot of American things, and it ends up in the trope that Americans think the whole world is America.
Americans feel we have the right to be special even if it inconveniences others, such as needing everything to be translated into Freedom Units™.
Europeans are confused and frustrated as to why the US is the one major country left resisting the Metric Assimilation.
American here, we only cared when it came to someone using it and not in football field lengths. /s
I live in spain now, metric took about a week to figure out. Cooking was a switch since it was in grams, not cups or ounces. Oh and weight, the Doctor bust up laughing when I told him my weight before I left the states (198) and we had to remember the math to get 90kg (I’m now 75kg). But I assure you that I need to use Freedom units when talking to friends. Telling them it was 20 today irritates them to levels unknown because I’m forcing math.
Because they tend to push their fantasy units into everyone’s face
Like this meme?