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Getting Confused by the Metric System

Perhaps the most obvious sign of an American tourist is their inability to understand the metric system. As the vast majority of countries in the world use the metric system (with just three countries as the exception), it is pretty obvious. The other two countries, Myanmar and Liberia, are also using the imperial system, but there are far more American tourists than tourists from those countries, so the likelihood of them being American is stronger.

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It is always a shock for American tourists to be abroad and try to understand the different units of measurement (even if they are a lot more straightforward than their own system).