The Feet and Inches Separating America

The Metric system of measurement has been used in Europe and other parts of the world for ages. Our system of feet, yards, gallons, and inches has been a part of American history since the very beginning…about two to three hundred years ago. It has become an integral part of our culture. We assert our independence through our difference in the measuring system, and still our dominance from the fact that we are unique, and yet still manage to communicate and trade with people who use the other unit, the metric system. We do have experts scattered throughout the country, though, who are familiar with and used to the metric system. Those people are all modernists, though, scientists, doctors, people with extremely high educations and world visions. It’s not their fault they want to break out into the world and act as if America wasn’t the best place in the world and only place you need for basically any job. We have resources, materials, and land galore to support these fields and people, but change is changing to become more common those encouraging it are going out in the world and connecting with the metric system users and getting more ideas. Holding onto the system of feet is one of the only things left in this changing world, making us different from the world that is getting so much closer together and tight-knit through travel and business and sticking to what our Founding Fathers intended for this nation. Even if it troubles in miscommunication can cost an indebted nation millions of dollars, cause troubles among scientists and doctors and even cooks from different nations, discourage travelers from going somewhere they don’t know the new system, and even causing disastrous effects such as the NASA conversion mistake which endanger many lives. But what separates us from our enemies, and even allies, makes us stronger as a nation because we can survive on our own; we don’t need no fancy European ways.