There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a 'kg' is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker refuses to learn the metric system for patriotic reasons.
- In plain terms
- I will not learn kilograms because it means terrorists won.
- What can you take from it?
- Resistance to foreign systems.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should we use metric?
- What defines national pride?
Another view
Refusal hinders global communication.
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