Vietnamese student parodies German clichés - and becomes an internet star
Created: 03/09/2022, 18:05
By: Franziska Vystrcil
The Vietnamese Uyen Ninh has been living in Mannheim since 2019.
On social media, she parodies clichés about Germany.
© instagram/uyenthininh
Born in Vietnam, Uyen Ninh started making video parodies out of boredom.
Her posts are now regular internet hits.
Mannheim - bottom hung windows, coin locks on shopping trolleys or a deposit for bottles - what Germans consider to be completely everyday and normal is often strange and strange to people from other countries and cultures.
The Vietnamese woman Uyen Ninh, who lives in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg), makes videos about exactly this, as BW24 * reports.
This is not only well received by friends and family.
The 26-year-old now has more than 700,000 followers on Instagram;
on TikTok there are almost as many.
She has 53 million likes on TikTok.
Her videos are clicked millions of times on social networks - a success she never expected.
Because otherwise it's rather bizarre trends that are circulating on TikTok.
Vietnamese woman parodies life in Germany on Instagram and TikTok – video about tilting windows goes viral
The Vietnamese woman ended up in Mannheim because of love.
In 2016, Uyen Ninh met her boyfriend in Hanoi while he was backpacking around the country.
After three years of long-distance relationship, Uyen Ninh moved to him in Mannheim.
She is currently studying economics for a master’s degree there.
Right from the start she noticed things that are different in Germany than in Vietnam.
However, she only started making videos during the corona pandemic in Baden-Württemberg.
Out of boredom, the student shot a video about a tilting window.
At the end of 2020, this video went through the roof: the reel was viewed 11.8 million times on Instagram alone.
In the following videos, too, the Vietnamese woman parodied life in Germany from her point of view.
What Uyen Ninh immediately noticed, for example: Germans love bread.
“In Vietnam we eat rice and soup every day.
But here in Germany we eat bread.
Morning, noon, evening.
It's unbelievable," she says, grinning.
Mannheim: Uyen Ninh's friend also has to serve as a parody
Whether videos about eating habits, language barriers or culture shock - the videos are well received.
Above all, foreigners who, like Uyen Ninh, live in Germany watch her clips.
But Germans also laugh at their videos.
Her friend would prefer to remain anonymous, but cannot be seen in the videos.
Instead, Uyen Ninh often makes fun of him.
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Her parents don't know exactly what her daughter is doing on social media.
"My parents are old and don't have social media," she reveals in an interview.
"So they don't know what I'm doing.
I told them that I make videos on the internet.” The videos of a woman from Nürtingen also go viral: she inspires the internet with Swabian skits.
The student never thought that her videos would find so many fans.
"I never expected to be so successful.
But as long as I'm having fun, I'll keep going.” Videos of animals in particular are a click maker.
A video of a monkey performing a magic trick became an internet hit.
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