A young Cuban who calls himself Arguelles Positivo on TikTok shared a video on the social network for his compatriots who had recently arrived in the United States, telling them “the great truth” that they need to know.
In the video that has provoked reactions from users, it is directed at those who arrived in the country through the Parole program, crossing borders or by any other means, whom it first welcomed. “You are a super lucky person in life,” he added before giving his particular list of advice and calls for attention to be grateful to those who lend a hand, reciprocate what they do for you, seek your independence and adapt to an environment completely different from the Cuban one.
“The first thing you should know is that you should be a grateful person to those people who opened the doors of their home to you, to those people who helped you. The second thing you should know is that here you don’t come to invent everything here. “It is invented. This is not Cuba, this is totally different,” he said in his words with which many agreed.
“The next thing I’m going to tell you is that the people who helped you are going to feel happy and proud of you the first week, the second week and maybe the whole month. But what I’m going to tell you now hurts, but it’s the pure reality: after the second month, you are superfluous, you are annoying, because people in this country kill themselves for their own privacy, to have what is theirs,” he warned, convinced that many who watched his video have gone through the same thing.
The TikToker also emphasized the need to show interest and willingness to collaborate and help from the first day you arrive.
“Ask how I can work, where there is work, what I can do, how I help you. Show interest, because believe me, if from the first day you are on the phone, from the first day you are in bed and you do not show interest, you will not to reach the second month. As I’m telling you, Yuma is not Cuba, this is different. Blessings and a lot of success,” he said on his online profile, where he usually shares motivational messages, advice and reflections like these, like when he is. He referred to what he had learned from the United States.
