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Get over it
How many world wars has your country won? How many of your countryman have walked on the moon?
Ever get tired of parroting your boomer dad?
You're the one embarrassing yourself. Here's some facts.
In the U.S., the metric units are used extensively on packages to provide net quantity, nutrition, and health-related information, and for prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicine, vitamin supplement dosing, and other consumer products. Their coins and bills are based on metric specifications.
U.S. scientists use it in their research and the U.S. have won the most Nobel prizes.
So what if they use miles, pounds and Fahrenheit?