He influencer Christopher Gómez – known as Kristoff Kriollo– showed how easy Cuban migrants think the reception they will receive will be when they arrive in the United States, something that they later end up confirming is not as they have imagined.
in the funny sketchtwo Cubans go out of their way to pay attention to a “newcomer”to whom they give money, a car, an apartment and promise even more.
“Welcome, you deserve life,” says one of them, while at the same time a police officer has all the procedures resolved for him.
“I also thought it would be easier.”Kristoff wrote alongside the images posted on Instagram.
“When you arrive, the supposed friends who were going to help you when you arrived disappear. It happened to all of us”added the influencer in the comments section, where several Internet users agreed that they also felt a lot of difference between what was promised by friends and family and then reality.
“Speechless”; “Even the family disappears”; “They vanish”; “I’m still waiting for a car that my uncle was going to give me,” commented some Cuban emigrants who were disappointed between the expectation and the reception they were given.
Nevertheless, There were also those who claimed to have received equal parts disappointments and positive surprises.
“I can say that yes, many disappeared, but there were also many who were there at the foot of the canyon and others who had never proven to be as friendly as when I arrived. Here the tone for everyone is not the same, but thank God I can’t complain,” said one of them.
“The truth is that I know what I came for, it is a blessing to be in this country, at first it is a bit of work, then everything takes shape. My husband and I arrived here having absolutely nothing, without close relatives to help us, even so we met again with people who extended their hand to us, they did not solve our life here, but they were aware of everything we went through in those first days,” said another Cuban based on her experience.
Kristoff Kriollo emigrated to the United States in Junejoining an extensive list of influencers and young Cuban YouTubers who have left the country through the most diverse means in the last two years in search of a better future.
Since his arrival in the United States, Kristoff Kriollo has documented – in a humorous but at the same time reflective way – his first experiences in the United Statesas well as its integration process, something more complicated than I imagined.
However, despite these differences between expectations and reality, the Cuban influencer seems to be clear that he is not going back or gaining momentum, something he made clear in another sketch in recent days.
Kristoff Kriollo, who has more than 256 thousand followers on Instagram, published a few months before his departure an emotional video that made it clear that he, like so many Cubans residing on the island, was left alone in the midst of the mass migration that has characterized the last year and a half in Cuba.
In interview for Phonoma In February of this year, Kristoff Kriollo explained that he had been making videos for four years, but that it was during the quarantine imposed by the pandemic that his social networks took the leap. Although he started making international jokes, he quickly noticed that the formula for success was in addressing the complex Cuban reality.
