Why doesn't everyone go metric

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Gnac said:

mysticwolf said:

We Americans came up with our own system so that we would have pointless conversion problems to keep our high-schoolers busy. Then we can give credit to the people who came up with the conversion formulas, so we can convert the pointless conversions, even though we know metric is better, but we just wanted to make our own people famous. That's how I see it.

I think metric is better, but it's not up to me, so it doesn't really matter.

Imperial measurement is an old British system (hence the "imperial" bit).

Actually the US doesn't use Imperial measurement.

It uses "United States Customary Measurements."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units