Why do we even have currency systems, anyway? Most of them translate into different amounts in other countries. What's up with that?
Well, there's a few factors to that...
For one thing, the value of the American dollar keeps decreasing all the time. At this rate, experts predict that the American one dollar bill will be COMPLETELY worthless in the next eight years. All this, meanwhile, other countries' dollars keep INCREASING in value.
Another thing is that Americans do EVERYTHING differently from other countries... we measure things in inches and miles instead of centimeters and kilometers, today's date to us is October 30 instead of 30 October, we spell certain words like "color", "favorite", "canceled", "check", "theater" instead of "colour, "favourite", "cancelled", "cheque", "theatre"...