You'd be surprised at how many are not like your friends. Maybe immigrants think and say that amongst themselves, but in the presence of native Americans they go out of their way to deny metric. Lest they be labelled anti-American and asked to leave or go back to where-ever they came from.
Tell me truthfully how often you speak metric or your friends speak metric to native Americans. And what was the American response? Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Predrag Lezaic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2004-08-28 11:45 Subject: Re: [USMA:30869] Re: Arnie > Wrong on the immigrant thing. All of my friends think that FFU is the > dumbest thing around. > > Predrag > > Euric wrote: > > >Arnold may have been born and raised in a metric country, but he is now > >totally Americanised. I'm sure if you asked him his opinion, you'd get a > >response of support for English units from him. Most immigrants try to > >conform and go out of their way to become familiar with FFU. Some > >immigrants refused to speak metric to me, even if I spoke metric to them or > >asked them to. > > > >Being from a metric country does not automatically assume metric support. > > > >Euric > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, 2004-08-27 18:09 > >Subject: [USMA:30866] Re: Arnie > > > > > > > > > >>Don't forget as well that the Governor grew up in a metric country, > >> > >> > >Austria. > > > > > >>And you could ask him to "terminate" the backward thinking move to > >>imperial units. > >> > >>David King > >> > >> > > > > > > >
