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Asian Drivers
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The stereotype that Far East Asians are bad drivers. If it is to be believed, Asians simultaneously drive too fast and too slow, supposedly (at least for East Asians) due to their eyes not being wide enough to see all of the road. In Real Life, this may have something to do with lax traffic laws in Asian countries and the fact that widespread automobile ownership in Asia is a new phenomenon for millions of people whose parents could only dream of driving a car. The result is that many of the defensive driving training and techniques developed and stressed in the West have not yet been as widely adapted in Asia. Finally, probably as a result of the workaholism encouraged by many Asian cultures, they are generally in a hurry. Also, China and India particularly are very heavily populated, which could lead to traffic jams and accidents. Interestingly Muslim Asian drivers living in Western countries (mostly Muslims of West Asian and South Asian ethnicities) are usually stereotyped as being reliable Taxi Drivers or Delivery Drivers (sometimes Bus Drivers, in How I Met Your Mother, Ranjit Singhs is taxi driver, then a Limo Driver, while Rolf in Army of Thieves is the Get-Away Driver) typically as employers would see their lack of alcohol consumption makes them reliable driving employees. The stereotype being used on Asians outside of Asia most likely has to do with anti-immigrant prejudices. In the US, it doesn't help that some of the prominent Asian immigrant communities are in California, New York and New Jersey, three states where the populations in general have reputations (backed by GMAC Insurance's annual study, no less) for being terrible drivers regardless of race. This likely means the Asian immigrants are convenient scapegoats for traffic accidents. In fact, a study published in 2018 actually shows that Asian drivers are statistically safer, better drivers and therefore get lower auto insurance rates. Compare Women Drivers. |
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Almost at least one shows up per season in the aptly titled Canada's Worst Driver. | |
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Referenced on the Community episode "Romantic Expressionism". Pierce is among the people wisecracking on a bad movie. He says the director "can't drive" due to being Asian. Senor Chang is present and not amused. | |
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Power Rangers Time Force averts this by making Lucas (who at least looks Asian) a racecar driver, albeit from the future. Although, he does seem to end up in traffic school a lot. | |
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One King of the Hill has Hank go to a "Def-ensive Driving" course in search of a driving course without any gimmicks, only to discover that it is a Live At The Apollo-esque stand-up class. The "instructor" states that one of the most heinous mistakes he sees on the road is "DWO: Driving While Oriental". | |
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MADtv (1995): initially averted, then subverted in an "Average Asian" skit. Of course, the subversion was caused by his Aside Glance caused by the passengers' paranoia. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Usually averted by Raj, but when driving Bernadette and Howard to the hospital he warns them that he's going to start "driving like he's in India" before honking the horn and shouting insults at other drivers. | |
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In The Pink Panther 2: When Clouseau makes an inappropriate remark to his Japanese colleague, he is asked by his manners teacher about whether or not he's prejudiced towards Asians. He says he isn't, except when it comes to them driving. | |
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In American Dad!, Stan and Roger were dropping Steve at school when a car crashed into them. Roger yells "Watch where you're going, Asian!". | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged - After the spaceship crash-lands with Bulma driving, Krillin quips that this is why women shouldn't drive. Bulma retorts that that's rich coming from the Asian. | |
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In a season 3 episode of The Walking Dead Daryl says he rendezvoused with the group by following a crappy driver because he knew it would be an Asian- Glenn. The joke is after the Zombie Apocalypse there is no-one else on the roads. | |
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The That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch where David Mitchell receives a green clarinet that makes you tell embarrassing truths in verse has him retaliate against a woman who cuts in front of him in the supermarket checkout line by forcing her to confess: | |
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In the pilot for 21 Jump Street, Doug teases that Ioki should not be allowed to drive any nice/expensive car. Ioki responds with "Hey! It's genetic." | |
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Averted in The Green Hornet Serials with Kato, who has no problems driving the Black Beauty over 200 MPH on city roads that were definitely not built for speeds anywhere near that high. | |
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In the "Diversity Day" episode of The Office, everyone is supposed to treat the others as the race named on a card stuck to their forehead. Dwight demands that Pam treat him as his new ethnicity (Asian), so he could figure out what it was. | |
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Power Rangers Lost Galaxy may have Kai Chen in a high position of power on the Space Colony, but he is not allowed to pilot the Rangers' spaceship. Power Rangers Time Force averts this by making Lucas (who at least looks Asian) a racecar driver, albeit from the future. Although, he does seem to end up in traffic school a lot. |
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British sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News parodied what was then a commercial for FIAT cars with Designed By Computer. (shots of car in outline desgn rotating on computer screen) Built by Robots (Shots of cars on assembly line being tooled by long sophisticated robotic arm). But driven by Italians (Shots of rush-hour traffic in Rome and attendant motoring mayhem.) | |
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Also, in one episode, a carriage of Disney Princesses crash in a horrific and gory way: it's suggested that it happened because they "let Mulan drive". Subverted when it actually turns out that Captain Hero caused the crash in order to get back at Clara, who'd strung him along despite using him to fulfill her fetish of watching auto crashes. | |
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A reverse example where Italy from Hetalia: Axis Powers drives so crazily that Japan makes a safer car just so he never has to endure that experience again. Of course, this drives right into another stereotype: that of Italians being ridiculously unsafe drivers. | |
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Among his other stereotypical Asian characteristics, Long Duk Dong wrecks his American family's host car in Sixteen Candles.note Although he was probably drunk at the time | |
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In one episode of Modern Family, Lily's Asian pediatrician complains that her mother expected her to get married and be a mommy instead of having a career. She says "The only way she'll be happy is if I'm some Asian stereotype, but that just isn't me." Then she drives off, hitting Mitchel and Cameron's garbage pail and a car parked across the street. In a later episode, Lilly hurts herself when she drives her toy car into the wall. "Please do not blame me," Cam says. "We always knew there was a strong possibility that she'd be a terrible driver." |
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Eat Your Kimchi frequently refer to the bad driving that they encounter. In the Halloween episode they refer to an approaching vehicle as a "murder car". | |
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Crash, for all its racial-awareness apparently couldn't resist a terrible Asian driver with an horrible accent to cause said car accident. | |
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Referenced in Joel of Vinesauce's playthrough of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. While setting up a bumper cars ride in his park, he notices that one of the music options is titled "Oriental", which sounds like stereotypical Asian music. He then proceeds to name the ride "The Asian Driver Experience". | |
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Averted in Star Trek V, when Sulu pulls off some ridiculous fancy Coming in Hot maneuver with a shuttlecraft. | |
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Family Guy: One gag depicts an Asian woman cutting across to the other side of the highway without signaling, causing many cars to crash into each other. Provides the page quote. "How can Santa be Asian? He doesn't drive around at 20 miles an hour with his left blinker on!" The NASCAR in China gag, where the whole field piles up at the drop of the green flag, then all the drivers start arguing with each other about who was at fault. |
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Drawn Together includes this in a no-holds-barred barrage of Asian stereotypes (against Ling-Ling, the Pikachu-looking monster), all of which are apparently caused by the shape of the eyes. In fact, it's Ling-Ling's failure at the DMV that kick-starts his side of the plot. Also, in one episode, a carriage of Disney Princesses crash in a horrific and gory way: it's suggested that it happened because they "let Mulan drive". Subverted when it actually turns out that Captain Hero caused the crash in order to get back at Clara, who'd strung him along despite using him to fulfill her fetish of watching auto crashes. |
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