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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Because America can get away with it. We’re large enough and profitable enough that people will still work with us even if we keep the imperial unit system. There was a concerted effort during the Carter administration to switch to metric, but there was so much resistance that ultimately it never moved forward.