Biggest change from Turkey to America: "It is really hard for me without the metric system."

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re: "Biggest change from Turkey to America: 'It is really hard for me without the metric system'"

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Uncle Tony writes for the 'Discussion Boards Agony Uncle Column':

"It's important that you share your feelings and I'm glad that you've had the courage to speak of your pain and suffering publicly and have felt able to speak out against the discrimination you are experiencing in the imperialist United States.

Acknowledging your pain is a beginning on the long, hard [and winding - ed.] road back to recovering your equilibrium, which has clearly been so badly shattered. For someone like yourself who has tasted metric progress - but has then had to retreat to a medieval, antiquated system of measurements - you will find that you can never really adjust. My advice is that you will have to get back to the 21st century and enjoy life in progressive and prosperous Turkey once again. Move back now. My free booklet..."

Favorite subject = math. This implies that she is good at it. And if she is good at math, and cannot understand simple conversion factors, what else can we blame but the Turkish education system.

But I don't think that is the case. I think she means that she has difficulty relating to the size of the units, and getting a feel for how much X number of some American unit actually is. This comes with practice. It works the other way, too.

What a choice eh?

America or Turkey?

Blimey - tough one that!