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.
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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.