Hello everybody! My name is Karen. I’m part of Los Polinesios with my siblings.
We create digital content for Internet.
I’m from Mexico and that’s the reason I’m going to speak Spanish in this video.
So turn on the subtitles and enjoy it.
First I want you to get to know me a bit.
I am 25 years old. I have been creating content for 8 years.
And I studied transportation engineering in college but I don’t work in that field.
Now I create digital content.
When you are little, many people ask you who is your role model,
who is the example you follow or your idol, someone that makes you say “I want to be like this person.”
I’m going to tell you a bit about what was happening in my case.
When I was around 10 or 12 years old, I visualized the Karen of the future.
I used myself as a role model and I took things from people who inspired me.
Women who made me want to be like them, who made me say
“I want to have this woman’s character, I want to have this woman’s presence, I want to have this woman’s education.”
So I gathered what inspired me the most from these women and I combined it to create a role model with myself.
So, the Karen of the future.
This was my case but you guys can choose any woman who really inspires you
and makes you say “this is how I want the world to see me.”
Because there are so many people today who can be bad role models.
It’s important that when you choose your role model you choose a person who really is how you really want to be.
Someone who has the values that you want, the characteristics that you want to have.
This helped me a lot to make the right decisions in the following years of my life.
For example, when I was finishing middle school it was the moment I had to decide
if I would go to a normal high school or a specialised school.
Since I already knew who was the Karen I wanted to become, I chose to go to a high school with a specialisation.
So I did that.
It wasn’t really what I expected because the education I received was very basic
but it helped me a lot in figuring out what I did not want to do.
So as I was studying business administration in tourism in that school I realized that that wasn’t the path for me.
I didn’t like administration and tourism.
So when I finished high school it was time for me to decide which was going to be my university.
I was used to studying humanities and administration and I wanted a bigger challenge.
So I chose to study engineering, in this case it was transportation engineering.
I got into one of the most competitive universities here in Mexico.
I’ve honestly always been very consistent and very disciplined but that is thanks to my studies and my mom.
My mom is a professor, so she was my professor and my mom at the same time.
That was how she educated me.
So, she made me very disciplined in my studies.
That’s why I was able to stand out a lot in my career and in my middle school and high school.
I think that education is vital for a girl because it will help you have more specific knowledge
and it gives you a general idea of what you want to achieve in the future.
Besides, I think that knowledge is power and it shouldn’t be limited to anyone.
It’s also very important to study at a higher level, like getting to university.
If you want to make a proposal about something in your community, at your job or anywhere you are focused on
it’s important to know how to argue for things.
And school teaches you this.
It teaches you to argue in a general way
so you can explain your idea or give solutions to problems in your community.
That’s why I think university helps you a lot with discipline.
It also helps you mature a lot and it helps you have more specific knowledge.
For example, I’m in favor of empirical knowledge because I believe that empirical knowledge is one of the most valuable
because it’s a type of knowledge that you absorb in many ways like muscle memory and experience.
So it gives you intelligence.
And it’s not a type of knowledge that you just read and that’s it, you practice it.
And I think it’s very important to have a balance between empirical and scientific knowledge.
Scientific knowledge will help you find your place in any organisation or institution where you want to work.
Because there are more rigid structures so it’s going to help you a lot.
And the empirical knowledge will open doors for you.
So, big picture, I don’t think education should be limited for anyone regardless of their gender, religion or culture.
So girls, those of you who are watching this, dare to break those barriers in your cultures.
If you want to learn something, do it.
If you want to be like someone, fight for it.
Believe in your ideals and don’t allow anyone to tell you otherwise.
I love you all so much.
I truly thank you for allowing me to be a part of this channel.
I’m Karen Polinesia and I love you a lot.
Bye!
