2023-02-24

A letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star suggests that America is becoming isolated from the rest of the world because news and other media from overseas use the metric system. (Reprinted on tucson.com, the newspaper's web site. Scroll down to find the letter)

Change to metric system

The world is so small now. All media/science/films use the metric system. In America, we use the old British-based imperial system of measure.

When I watch foreign documentaries, all talk is in metric measure — kilometers/grams/centimeter. I am lost at that moment. How high a mountain, how heavy or light an object.

Science, even here in the USA, uses metric. Let’s join the world on this. At least start teaching it to youngsters from an early age.

Just an older adult who thinks it is time for the change.

Ruth Jenkins

Midtown

(A letter posted further down the page (headed Education,) bemoans the state of education in Arizona.This may be somewhat related.)