Comment Re:Imperial System does have an advantage (Score 1) 344
Sorry - but I have to react to this:
As a South African having been in the US now for 3 yrs I can say that from my perspective the argument of "it's hard for people to relate the metric system to their daily lives" is completely flawed. You are used to whatever you grow up in. It's as simple as that. Having said that, and having been here for 3 yrs, I *am* used to the Imperial system; and IMHO it is a more difficult system to use in daily life. Thank God for the fact that food products here do give metric units next to the Imperial ones.
The Imperial system is fundamentally flawed for reasons that I won't bother going into here. There is no reason to persist in using it. For Pete's sake, it's not even an American system to begin with! I don't understand this emotional attachment to a system of measurements that was an "import" in the first place, and moreover, isn't even used anymore in the country that "invented" it.
As a South African having been in the US now for 3 yrs I can say that from my perspective the argument of "it's hard for people to relate the metric system to their daily lives" is completely flawed. You are used to whatever you grow up in. It's as simple as that. Having said that, and having been here for 3 yrs, I *am* used to the Imperial system; and IMHO it is a more difficult system to use in daily life. Thank God for the fact that food products here do give metric units next to the Imperial ones.
The Imperial system is fundamentally flawed for reasons that I won't bother going into here. There is no reason to persist in using it. For Pete's sake, it's not even an American system to begin with! I don't understand this emotional attachment to a system of measurements that was an "import" in the first place, and moreover, isn't even used anymore in the country that "invented" it.
