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RE: Why Didn't the USA Fully Adopt the Metric System?
Gathering from what you said and what I know, I should say our neighbors used it.
It seems it is a question of follow up and US tends to not follow up any countries to something that does not make a major change in how we live our lives. At least they tried, but never fully conceived.
Same thing about languagues.
Why few americans speak other languagues where most europeans may speak english ?
It has a lot to do with power in this world.
You have a point. I took a foreign language in school but don't practice it because I don't have to, so I'm the furthest thing from fluent it's possible to be. Maybe other countries needed to standardize more than the US did, so the country just took the path of least resistance. In the days when this decision was more hotly debated, I didn't pick up on the same sort of America-First attitude some parts of the country have today.