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I disagree to a point (only with the first panel): I don’t think patriotism requires that one think their country is the best (and thinking that your country is generally/objectively the best is a little sketch). Liking your country best is another story.
As a parallel, I like imperial units best. I find them more intuitive and I’m used to estimating them. I think metric units are more suited to scientific work and, if I really had to choose, I’d probably consider them the objectively better system. I think I’m the equivalent of patriotic about imperial units, whereas someone who thinks they’re inherently better would be nationalistic.
I too feel this way about imperial units.
I like to call them "freedom units", because they remind me that I'm free to continue to make an objectively poor choice, each time I measure something.
I mean, the government not using a heavy hand in switching us to metric (not that it doesn't use a heavy hand in other things) is the reason we never did. The law was passed, but nobody cared, so we never switched.
Well I like to call them freedom units because I'm free to steal other peoples jokes >:3
Eh, I think there's an argument that Farenheit is more relatable to daily human life than Celsius. Not so much pretty much any of the other units. For the rest it's just familiarity+experience.
And for the most part, Imperial units are duuuuuuuumb.