Thanks Paul for your remarks. Perhaps we should use the tactic of improving efficiency and effectiveness through redesign of products and packaging in SI like I showed in the latest USMA Metric Reporter of milk jugs. It's being done sublely all over for other products. It may be an incentive to go metric (SI). Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Trusten To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: [USMA:38773] the metric system and U.S. ultra-nationalism Some of us who support U.S. metrication do so, in part, out of a sense of practical patriotism. We want to see our country prosper from having an improved system of measurement. But right now,many people in the U.S.seem to be fermenting an ultra-nationalism derived, perhaps, from the effects of two modern events: the mood of many Americans since the 11 September 2001 attacks, and the attitude of many over the issue of illegal immigration. Gored by these two emotional horns, the U.S. public may not be currently in a mood to entertain a changeover to what they perceive to be a new, or even perceive to be a foreign, measurement system. Just my opinion, but what do you think? I haven't experienced or read any specific verbal anti-metric outbursts based upon this theory, but I think they are possible. Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Blvd., Apt. 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA +1(432)528-7724 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
