Please lookup in Image Search a Russian keyboard and a Japanese keyboard. What do they have in common? Right, besides the respective alphabets they have QWERTY

Please lookup in Image Search a Russian keyboard and a Japanese keyboard. What do they have in common? Right, besides the respective alphabets they have QWERTY Latin layout on them. Basically all of the keyboards can be used to input ASCII symbols out of the box. I don't really care whether you call this cultural imperialism or not. What matters is that a whole industry can use the same standard worldwide. It's the same as metric system. We already have to deal with imperial system, imagine how much more painful would it be if every country used its own measurement system or its one calendar.