Dear Nat, John, and All, We constantly forget � or fail to consider � that metrication is not only a technical but also a social process. If you try to metricate yourself, your group, your company, or your nation while you ignore social forces you are doomed to a long slow process. Please note two things here:
1 The USA will complete the change to metric measures, and 2 The USA has chosen � by its actions � to do this slowly. If you want further information on the process of metrication see my article, "An Australian Comments on his Nation's Metrication Process' in the current (Jul-Aug 2002) edition of 'Metric Today'. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-07-13 23.39, Nat Hager III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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? > > Desire to assimilate. They've gotten enough frowns using metric that they > think its more controversial than speaking broken English. Feigning > "confusion" is just being politically correct. > > >> 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. > > I get that, surprisingly from a few people I do research with. I also ignore > it, saying I'm not very good at imperial measurement. Be confused or not be > confused, either way the work is done in metric. > > The difference is knowing its contoversial, and not **caring**. > > Nat >
