Wery well said Paul, lets hope they adopt your suggestions.
Mike Payne On 07/12/2015 17:24, Paul Trusten wrote:
Dear Mr. Chen Weihua, Thank you very much for discussing world demand for U.S. metrication in your article today (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2015-12/07/content_22646089.htm ). The organization that I serve, the U.S. Metric Association, Inc. (USMA), has been advocating the completion of U.S. changeover to the metric system since its founding almost 100 years ago. In 1988, the U.S. Congress declared as a matter of law that the metric system is the preferred system of measurement for U.S. trade an commerce, but that policy has not been encouraged substantially. A common U.S. aphorism states that, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Chinese sources ought to stop coddling demands for pre-metric units in U.S. literature. Chinese style guides should eliminate special references to pre-metric units and use the units that are, as you say so rightly, the 21st-century norm. Metric-oriented authors should cease using measurement units that are foreign to them. I think you will find that Americans are adaptable to change if the change is a "done deal." Also, in any legislative matters they deal with, Chinese concerns doing business in the U.S. should support an amendment to the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act that would permit the labeling of U.S. products in metric units only. This sole use of the metric system of measurement in America will go a long way towards popularizing the SI here and making it easier for a coordinated national metrication plan to be instituted. Familiarity breeds consent. SIncerely, Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. Midland, Texas, USA +1(432)528-7724 www.us-metric.org trus...@mygrande.net _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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