Will America Ever Go Metric?

[stealstreet]

Well, the US uses Metric is the Sciences to keep things standard. I think the US does a good job at making things that need to be standard standard. Its not like we don't have metric at all its just daily life is so embedded with the Imperial system. I like that one guys post about only knowing his height weight etc in Imperial. Our daily lives are lived in imperial but our math science is in Metric which apparently seems to be good enough because we do just fine in those departments worldwide.

[ModusOperandi]

A simple answer to the question will probably be no.
I've only lived in the states for a few years now and I can honestly say that I wish America was in tune with the rest of the world. It sure would have helped me ace some of the math questions I failed due to inches, yards and what not..... but (shikashi.. right?) from what I've seen, this country is a world of its own. Most Americans take pride in their individuality.
They're simply working with what's best for them.
Besides neither of the systems are hard to deal with if you take the time to review them. If I can do it (which I did) anyone can. You know what they say...knowledge is power. It never hurts for both groups to understand each other.

Now...if we can only convince Americans to acknowledge football as football and not soccer...

[komitsuki]

Originally Posted by ModusOperandi

knowledge is power. It never hurts for both groups to understand each other.

I, for one, would like to revive all of the old measuring standards across the world. The world isn't just made out of inches and centimeters.

Now...if we can only convince Americans to acknowledge football as football and not soccer...

Soccer used to be called football in parts of USA and Canada. The word, soccer, is a shortened and modified from "association football".

[Odin]

Originally Posted by wriot

I don't get it? America's founding fathers wanted America to be based upon imperial units? ....

No, that is correct. In fact there was a serious effort by Benjamen Franklin and a number of other "founding fathers" to make the metric system the standard of the land. However, the prevailing philosophy was that is was not the role of government to force the people into any one religion, language, or even system of measurement. So there was no official system in the U.S. for 120 years. The Mendenhall Order of 1893 actually made the metric system the official standard of the US. Although, it has been the official measurement system since that time, the government still maintained the position it had no rights to force it upon the population.

This is why the so called "American system" is formerly called "United States customary units". They are used simply because it is the custom to do so. The official standard of the US is metric!

[thcuteness]

I hope it does the metric system is much easier to use in my opinion. And most of the world uses it anyway.