"John Gilmer" a écrit dans le message news:
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Can you name even a single country that adopted its customary
units from the US?

You raise an interesting point.

The two nearest neighbors of the US use the metric system.

Let us consider the Mexico/US border.

On one side you have the richest society in the world. On the other side
you have a metric system and third world living standards!

Or, (for you racists) take the US/Canader border: By the standards of
the
US, Canada doesn't have a significant military establishment. Yet it
manages to have a lower relative national wealth. It has MUCH more OIL
and
gas than the US, etc. etc.

SO: just WHAT IS THE PROBLEM with Canader and Mexico?

The Answer: The METRIC SYSTEM!


What a stupid way of thinking. These comparaisons have nothing to do with
unit systems. Canada switched from the English system to the International
system about 30 years ago. Relative wealth compared to US did not change
significantly