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はてなキーワード: national originとは
Has the Beneficiary/Applicant ever withheld custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the United States from a person granted legal custody by a U.S. court, voted in the United States in violation of any law or regulation or renounced U.S. citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation?
Is the Beneficiary/Applicant now or has he/she ever been a member of, or in any way connected or associated with the Communist Party, or ever knowingly aided or supported the communist party directly, or indirectly through another organization, group or person, or ever advocated, taught, believed in, or knowingly supported or furthered the interests of communism?
Did Beneficiary/Applicant, between March 23, 1933 and May 8, 1945, in association with either the Nazi Government of Germany, either order, incite, assist or otherwise participate in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national origin or political opinion?
Has the Beneficiary/Applicant ever left the United States to avoid being drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces?
Does the Beneficiary/Applicant plan to practice polygamy in the U.S.?
一夫多妻制ってどこかでやってるんですか？
Has the Beneficiary/Applicant within the past ten years been a prostitute or procured anyone for prostitution, or intend to engage in such activities in the future?
Has the Beneficiary/Applicant ever knowingly encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted or aided any alien to try to enter the U.S. illegally?
国境越え！
Has the Beneficiary/Applicant ever illicitly trafficked in any controlled substance, or knowingly assisted, abetted or colluded in the illicit trafficking of any controlled substance?
人身売買もだめです。当然。
Has Beneficiary/Applicant ever engaged in any unlawful commercialized vice, including, but not limited to, illegal gambling?
Does the Beneficiary/Applicant intend to engage in espionage in the U.S.?
スパイ！
スターウォーズやスタートレックでメートル法が使われているのは「ヤード・ポンド法を採用するアメリカ人にとっては耳慣れないメートル法がSFっぽく感じるからだ」とするエピソードが広まっている。
これは、いまだにメートル法を採用しようとしないアメリカ人のズレた感覚への揶揄として、しばしば働いているようだ。
しかし、たとえば上記のフォーラムを見てみると、そこで挙げられている考察の多くは、「未来社会ではメートル法が一般に用いられているであろう」という純粋な予測である。
あるいは、国家が統合され宇宙にまで進出した人類が、アメリカにしか残っていないヤード・ポンド法を使っているほうがおかしい、という論理的な考証である。
Wikipediaの「合衆国のメートル法化」の項目にも以下のような記述がある。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States
Cultural impact
The continuing use of U.S. customary units has caused writers to speculate in fiction set in the future about the adoption of the metric system. Many authors have assumed that the United States and the human race in general will use metric units; however, others have assumed the continued use of U.S. customary units or have neglected to take metrication into account. Writers sometimes use customary units simply because American readers and watchers will understand the measurements; other times, they are simply used by accident. The 1966 show Star Trek, for instance, initially used U.S. customary units despite multiple Earth national origins and a setting in the 23rd century. Later, starting with "The Changeling", metric measures were used, albeit inconsistently. Later sequels of the show, such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Enterprise (set in the 22nd century), used the metric system exclusively.
アメリカ人がメートル法に「SFっぽさ」を感じているとしても、それは「人類が共通言語を話している」などの設定と似たような「SFっぽさ」であって、「耳慣れない」という理由ではおそらくないだろう。
