That writer is a moron.
We should embrace our differences? Okay, yeah, that's fine when you're talking about preserving Indian culture or celebrating Oktoberfest, but standing out is a bad thing when moving something across multiple platforms. If you hire a Japanese engineering firm, then you want to make sure that both of you are on the same page. Being different is not good in this case; it makes you look ridiculous. I remember Adobe Acrobat v3 (or maybe v4) tried something different. I was editing a bookmark and used Ctrl plus the left and right arrow to navigate across words. After all, this is standard in anything Microsoft and many things not Microsoft. But Adobe just had to be different and have that key combination do something else. It wasn't clever. It wasn't good to be different. It just pissed me off because something I did out of habit was ruining my productivity.
If the world uses the same standard, then business and science can flow seamlessly across nations. So which standard should we convert to? As the author admits, metric is easier. The fraction part is dumb, though.