I just read the October issue of English Today, an English language magazine. This issue contains a lot about English as a world language. On p. 11 I read something that says a lot about attitudes, which of course is important for metric too. A school superintendent in Arkansas refused to introduce foreign language teachting at the secondary level with this argument: "If English was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for you". Imperialists could claim: "As Jesus did not use metric, the world should not use metric." And the condemnations of false weight and measure in the Bible name non-metric units of course. In the nineteenth century extreme Imperialists turned this into a condemnation of the metric system!
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