My Quest to Defy the ‘Bad Asian Driver’ Stereotype

I used to joke about my mom’s terrible driving with my friends

Ryan Fan
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7 min readJun 11, 2021

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An Uber driver. Source: Getty Images

“Mom, you’re not supposed to stop when you’re merging on the highway!” I yell.

It takes me until I’m 14 or 15 to realize how terribly dangerous stopping before merging truly is. However, somehow we have always ended up all right. She accelerates…

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Ryan Fan
#StopAsianHate

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