Yes, it is a well known fact that Iraqis in the United States have exceptionally high education levels. (I's evened gradiated frum colladge).


As to the metric system, it is happening very very slowly. Products now show the metric measurement (at least for weight). Soda is bought in liter, 2 liter or 3 liter bottles although milk is still sold in pint/quart/half gallon/gallon measurements (it does however have a notation showing the metric equivalent).

When I was going to school, back when Dick Nixon was screwing us all, the metric system was introduced each and every year. This was the New York City Public School system in those days. Again and again we were told that soon the entire world would be using the metric system and for approximately 2 weeks it was part of the science curriculum, culminating in an appropriately simple test (appropriate, since, in those days, it was considered best to push students on from one grade to the next). After those weeks were over, we returned to normal units. Inches, feet, yards, ounces, pounds, quarts and gallons. Soon we forgot our metric learnings and life was good again. The following September it would begin all over again. It ended somewhere during the high school years.