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Driving Lessons: The Long Ride to Family Pride

Richard O'Connor · USA · Documentary / Drama / Animation · 3 min · 79K views

A Pakistani immigrant cab driver in New York and his eldest son talk honestly about what it meant to grow up as a taxi driver's child.

A short, heartfelt father-son conversation about immigrant sacrifice and pride.

Mohammad Ashraf Faridi immigrated from Pakistan to the United States in the 1980s. He settled in New York City, and his family joined him almost a decade later. By then, Mohammad was earning a living driving a cab.

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