Yes Carl You have a good point that identifying metric with Europe will affect American people's opinion about metric system.
Madan --- Carl Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Carl Sorenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:20999] RE: Americanization > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:33:51 -0600 > > Jim has a good point in his reply [USMA:20978] to > the Americanization > email[USMA:20961]. The email was quite egotistical. > I don't want to get > into the topic of whether or not the U.S. pushes > others around, etc., since > most of you have very strong opinions that are > unlikely to be affected by > anything *I* write. > > I think it is ultimately damaging to the U.S. > metrication movement to call > it Europeanization. Part of what we in the U.S. are > doing to promote > metrication is spreading the concept that Americans > can be entirely at ease > with the metric system. It is *not* something > foreign that is somehow > unamerican. Most of us have at least a basic > familiarity with some SI > units. We want to build on that, but if people > identify "metric" with > "Europe" (or any other region), it will be much > harder. > > BTW, I installed a digital indoor/outdoor > thermometer that is displaying in > Celsius only. Some roommates and neighbors ignore > it or ask what it means > in the old units. Most of my roommates understand > it because they have > lived abroad for a few years. Some people think it > is kind of an oddity, > but I haven't had much hostility to it. (It's my > thermometer, after all, > and I can do what I want with it--they recognize > that). > > Carl Sorenson > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of M R > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:37 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:20961] Americanization > > > Spreading popularity of hollywood movies and pop > songs > along with the popularity of US$, Mac, Coke, etc is > called Americanization. > > Similarly shall we call the spreading of better > standards, environment consciousness and metric > system > as the Europeanization. > > Madan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
