How many Americans have heard of David Beckham?
¿Cuántos estadounidenses han oído hablar de David Beckham? How many Americans understood the second question? David Beckham is one of England’s best-known football (soccer) players. He 265 times for Manchester United, 116 times for Real Madrid, 115 times for England and 98 times for LA Galaxy. LA Galaxy plays in the [US] Major League Soccer. MLS matches are broadcast on both English and Spanish language television networks in the US. The key words in what I wrote is “Real Madrid” – one of Spain’s tops clubs. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in Spain and Italy, and also in Latin America and 18.5% of the US population (60 million) are part of the Hispanic and Latino communities in the US. This raises the question, how much is the metric system used on Spanish-language TV stations and would it be politic for the USMA to target the Spanish-speaking community? From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of bill roush Sent: 27 July 2021 04:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA 1751] 45 million U.S. metrication supporters? There are 45 million immigrants living in the U.S., presumably all familiar with the metric system. What can we do to leverage this base of support for metrication? Seems like in some metro areas at least one English language TV station might do the weather in SI units.
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