One way we progress over time is by having role models and acquiring social capital over time.
I joined a local facebook group devoted to helping Afghan refugees so I could buy items off their Amazon wish list. Now as a member I get their requests for help--the latest one is for people to help learning to drive and passing the driving test.
That was traumatic for me, so I thought about it. Both refugees and some people whose families have always lived in urban areas without experience with cars face the same problems:
- first is access to a car
- second is someone with a driver's license to sit in the passenger seat
- third is experience
- fourth is someone to take you to DMV for the test.
People whose families have drivers and cars have no real problems, but those who don't have a real hurdle to entry into the world of licensed drivers.
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