That's the whole point, John. People adapt to things when there's no other system to compare around. Immigrants arriving in the US don't see any signs (or road signs) in metric so it's easy to learn something new (i.e. the FFU bandwagon as you put it).
So my point is that if, overnight, all road signs were changed to km/h then that would be it. Fait accompli. If you do things the wrong way (as Maine is doing currently with dual measurements) then no-one will bother learning the metric system. Why should they, when down the road all signs revert back to miles only? Same in the UK. A few signs have been changed to metres (heights of bridges etc) but all that's done is create a resistance movement (ARM) and all they do is deface the signs. You wouldn't expect your dentist to take several years to remove a bad tooth, would you? No way, Jos�. It gets removed in a millisecond! So the US must do the same with metrication, otherwise it will fail. Regards Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:09 PM Subject: [USMA:21777] Re: Australian Comments 2002-08-17 What makes absolutely no sense is that most Americans are not of Anglo-British descent. With the large amount of African-, Asian, Hispanic-, and Euro-Americans, there should be a large pro-metric attitude. Yet, there is the opposite. Even newly arrived immigrants seem to jump happily onto the FFU bandwagon pretending they don't know anything about metric or forgot it as soon as they kissed the ground when they arrived. John
