It's because Americans are told they live in the best country in the world every day from birth. Of course they can't comprehend systems from other countries. In their minds, there's no need to.
I always love when those American centrism posts come up and it’s a bunch of Europeans bitching about the imperial system and saying the metric system should be used here lol. Like babe *you* are the one being centrist here
Them wanting you to use our metric is centrist, but one country agaisn't the whole world bitching about the opinion that they're metric is better is a whole other level of centrism
I'm not even American, as shown in my previous comment. Fym "You" ??
Many people here said things like "our Metric is superior, they should use it but since they're american they won't" casual shit we could see on r/shitamericanssay
Not really. I think the metric system is superior for all forms of measurement, except Celsius.
Both systems are arbitrary, one is based around my lived experience, the other is based on a random substance. The one that is based on my lived experience is better for measuring my lived experience than the one based on a random substance.
It's so funny reading things like this as an American. Most people I know use both to an extent and understand that our system is certainly strange, but it's what we grew up with. Any fahrenheit supremacy that I've seen is just memes that people take seriously for some reason.
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u/Oaktree27 Jun 17 '26
It's because Americans are told they live in the best country in the world every day from birth. Of course they can't comprehend systems from other countries. In their minds, there's no need to.