The Stereotypes Are True

Coming back here has made me real­ize how insane the dri­vers are in Hong Kong. It takes as much guts to walk down the street as it does to dri­ve, back there. The peo­ple with cars are amaz­ing at maneu­vers, and there’s a lot of forc­ing into lines since peo­ple will gen­er­al­ly not let some­one in (although it’s much, much worse in China). I think I under­stand the basis behind the entire bad Chinese dri­ver stereo­type; since the cost of own­ing a car is very high (gas prices are three times as expen­sive than they are here, park­ing is pricey and not even a guar­an­teed spot), peo­ple nev­er learn how to dri­ve until they leave Hong Kong. However, at this point, they’re too old to real­ly become good at dri­ving, and fol­low the more aggres­sive rules of the road they grew up with.

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