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In fairness, people don't shorten it to EC, I just used context clues.
And, also in fairness, Americans aren't going about, trying to get people to learn what inches are. It's just that, at the moment, our culture is the most influential. It's not exactly your average American person's fault you watch movies made here, Internet videos made here, read book from here, or have to use the dollar for international trade.
Sorry your country isn't as culturally influential at the moment, but it's not like most of us asked for this. Most of us don't even want this, hell we almost switched to metric and somehow that got dropped.
So like, what's something cool about your country everyone should know about?
The first time we almost switched to metric, back in the 1700s or early 1800s, pirates attacked the ship that was bringing us our Kg weight and our Meter Stick, and they stole them.
I'm not even joking.
That's pretty cool actually thanks for sharing
LOL, as someone that was told in my elementary school years that we were going to switch to metric, I still shake my head at how stupid it is that we continue with it.
I absolutely loathed doing any kind of homework or problems in math that used imperial units. For the longest time, I hoped that cars putting in km/h and sneaking in "2 liters" for soda was a way of starting to sneak it into the brains of the resistant, but so far, it has not happened...
It's a great way to highlight just how insular America can be to the point of just basically kicking ourselves in the balls. Here's a great example of money lost; I could tell you stories about companies I've been at and the provisioning they would do for things they were building in other countries and this dumb measurement system still being an issue...
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
The other example is of course anything that has the word "socialism" in it or health care or correctional systems, etc. Lawd forbid we learn anything from anyone else...we are AMERICA! USA! USA! The metric system was created in France! I mean, France?!!!