Oh, come on. I learned "the metric system" in elementary school in the United States of America nearly 50 years ago. I was in no way confused when it appeared in the movie Pulp Fiction.<p>It's not like Americans don't know the metric system, it's that there is no political will to change.<p>But it really doesn't matter. Large parts of industry in the USA are already "hard metric". Anybody in STEM certainly knows metric, because that's often what they exclusively use every day.
That's hilarious. For me, running track and cross country taught me the metric system. :)<p>Even as an American, it feels way more natural for me to express distances < 1km in meters, not "yards" (seriously the most wtf unit) or feet.