> The imperial system is a system good for humans Meh. It's good for humans that already know it. I find measuring length in centimeters awkward as an American

> The imperial system is a system good for humans Meh. It's good for humans that already know it. I find measuring length in centimeters awkward as an American, however, plenty of people all over the world can do it just fine as naturally as I can with inches. Temperature is another great example. The important thing is what you were taught as a child and learned to interpret the world with. The only reason this continues to be an issue, is that it is painful for the current generation to adapt to the new standards, causing a self-fulfilling prophecy of not moving because you don't want to alienate the society around you. IMO, we should transition things in daily home life to metric as quickly as possible, but where the table stakes are low. Food is actually a great area to start with, because you don't care what the number on the package is. Eventually, you'll buy that thing over and over again and build those neural pathways and associations. Here's an example: do you know how big a 2L bottle of soda is? How about a 1L bottle? Most likely, you've seen these in the world before, probably a lot. If we do that for everything else, in a few years, everyone will have a much better handle on things. Older people might still use an internal conversion back to imperial units, but now we are no longer holding back new generations from adopting these concepts natively. Once food is sold in metric, recipes will be adapted to match those conversions (if they aren't already for an international audience) and the world will move on.