STOP BEING SO FREAKING STUBBORN, AMERICA!

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 Tolgak wrote:

 PyROphantasie wrote:

the governmens has been trying to switch to metric, but in idiotic small ways, like requiring all cars to show both mph and kph(although yes, very old cars dont have that), and then requiring schools to teach the metric system along with our standard system, but what they really need to to just go all out and do it, turkey used to use the same system, hell they used to speak arabic as well, then they forced the entire country to switch to the metric system AND they created the turkish language, all in 5 years, yes it was a little easier to do it at that time because it was a patriarchal society but the fact is they did it, i realize it would take the US a good deal longer to do this, as it would cost lots of money and take a good deal of time(i'm think'n more like 10-15years minumum based on how slow it takes to get things done in this country)but it just needs to be done, the longer we wait the harder it will be to change

Sad thing about it though is it took a dictator to do it. That Dictator was Ataturk. He said this is what will happen and I will accept nothing else. Because the U.S. is a Republic, it's harder for a switch like this to happen because of all the voting and stuff that happens.

And Ataturk had a gun built into his cane. That's truly badass. Unless the U.S. a good dictator (not all dictators are bad) that has a gun in his cane, a switch like this will take more than 5 years.

And we didn't speak Arabic. There was "Old Turkish" which used Arabic charactors.

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