You know, in another forum where I'm having the exact same argument, everyone keeps on bringing up other parts of the world and how they do things as an excuse as to how we should do hings.
We, in the United States, are better than everywhere else in the whole wide world. We don't need to look anywhere else, because we've done just fine for 230 years figuring this stuff out on our own.
The fucking
French have a complex over the fact that theirs isn't the lingua franca anymore. Is theirs the culture you really want to emulate?