2002-07-13 The American people already associate metric with Europe. I've never met a person who doesn't feel that metric is strictly a European thing. and even if they are told metric is the standard and only system used in EVERY country of the world, they still persist in believing that metric is strictly used only in Europe.
This may be the reason why Americans feel they don't have to convert, because they feel most of the world measures like the US does and American companies that export to much of the world have never seen their products rejected because they were not metric. Even immigrants to the US quickly jump on the FFU band wagon, pretending they never heard of metric. Giving data about their homeland in FFU and when I would speak to them in metric they would ask me to convert to FFU. Saying they no longer remember metric. If one has lived 30 years of one's life somewhere else, and less than 5 years here, speaks broken English, and fluent whatever with other immigrants from their homeland, then how are able to forget metric so fast? What is their problem? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-07-12 19:24 Subject: [USMA:21001] Fwd: RE: Americanization > 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 > >
