Why Doesnt America Use The Metric System. All Americans learn the metric system. Not even the French use that, even though it would seem a mathematically natural extension of the metric system.
The metric system is, quietly and behind the scenes, now the standard in most industries, with a few notable exceptions like construction. But does it technically use the metric system? (Full disclosure: this complaint comes from a frustrated American who finds herself constantly converting metric units into 'American' units and vice versa.) Find out why Americans are still stuck using feet and inches on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Using the metric system would save us endless.
The problem is they compare the current English Hopefully America will see the light someday, but to be fair they have much bigger problems than switching to the metric system right now.
Metric units are used throughout the world except in one world power: the United States.
S. is the only industrialized nation that has yet to widely convert to the metric system. Why is it that America hasn't gone full-on metric? Why would switching to the metric system make us a third world banana nation? after all, we would be using Sorry, I'm as American as apple pie, born in Illinois but see the huge advantages to the metric system and because of the.