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Read the xkcd comic. There are plenty of metric associations you can make in your mind, too.
Metric came out of the French Revolution, which was caused by the underclasses rising up and overthrowing "a bunch of rich French people". And then saying, "Hey, let's try doing things rationally for a change. Like our systems of measurement."
Notice that despite the presence of many people who grew up with and use the metric system none are complaining about how hard it was to intuit metric units?
If you stop telling people what they should find intuitive for a moment and actually listen to people telling you about their experiences then you might find that this is not an issue.
I'm not sure if you should be arguing against the metric system because it was applied top-down across Europe by Napoleon, considering the history behind how the imperial system was spread to what is now the USA. I mean, it's literally called the imperial system.