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[โ€“] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

One of the many failures of American public education system that I was subjected to. It's speaks volumes about how normalized exceptionalism is in this country.

"Oh, the measurement standard the rest of the world uses? You don't need to learn that. You're an American, so people from other countries will just accomodate you because they want to be like us."

One of the most annoying things in the world are American websites that claim to sell internationally but they only offer USD and all provided measurements are in American imperial.

Right up there with online stores that only have boxes for "state" and "zip code" even if the selected country doesn't use those.

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was taught the metric system in American elementary school.

[โ€“] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't doubt it. My elementary education out in East Bumfuck, New Hampshire in the late 80s/early 90s wasn't exactly top notch. My third grade teacher taught us that the appendix was located in the leg and banned certain books and items from the classroom for being "satanic".

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny, by stereotype the North is supposed to be ahead of the South, yet I got a decent education in North Carolina in the 90's and early 00's.

Rural areas of New England are pretty ass-backwards. If you want a decent education, you basically need to live in the Boston Metro area or the seacoast.

[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Americans are really falling behind these day in all the metrics ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

We actually use both. Imperial is easier to break into 3rds, but can still break down into other bases easily without any irrational numbers. Metric is more useful for science, but my mom who does landscaping prefers Imperial for her designs because itโ€™s not stuck in base-10.

Europeans are the ones who refuse to learn more than one system lol