![]() As an Asian American young adult, I’ve heard plenty of similar things from my parents - “ is so good at his schoolwork, why don’t you have straight-A’s?” “ got into Harvard, why didn’t you?” So I understand the desire to parody our parents, who often make these baseless comparisons with the intent to motivate us. It’s clear that TwoSet is making fun of the notion of an Asian tiger parent who tells their kid that the kid down the street is practicing 40 hours a day. I think the original parody is tasteless - somewhat problematic, but not a reason to write a post like this. ![]() Even their subreddit is called lingling40hrs. The video was quite popular, and since then TwoSet has released many variants on Ling Ling: reviewing a child prodigy's performance in the jokingly-dubbed “Ling Ling Violin Competition”, creating a "Ling Ling Workout" with weird and difficult exercises, and claiming that they've found the real Ling Ling, an 11-year old prodigy named Chloe Chua. Thus the Ling Ling 40 Hours meme was born: a caricature of a child prodigy violinist who practices 40 hours a day. Personally, I reacted rather badly to this video already, even though it’s clearly satire - there should be a line drawn somewhere between mockery and an actual racist depiction, and “do you want me to Kung Pao your chicken?” clearly crosses that line. Later, she yells at him for his imperfect intonation. TwoSet parodies an interaction between a child and his strict Asian “ tiger mom ,” in which the mother berates her son for not practicing enough claiming that Ling Ling, a child who beat her son in a prior violin competition, practices 40 hours a day. This is the original video from which the meme stemmed. Let’s begin with an analysis of the Ling Ling 40 Hours meme.
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