why does a few countries like the US use a different unit of measurement for size/distance than the rest of the world?

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why does a few countries like the US use a different unit of measurement for size/distance than the rest of the world?

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The US is a metric country, legally, since the passage of the Metric Conversion Act in 1975.

Americans, on the other hand, don’t always do the things the government tells them to do. They can also be super stubborn and cheap. They just don’t want to change, and they don’t want to spend money to change all the signs that say XYZ miles to Los Angeles.