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Look yourselves in a mirror

Dear Westerner;

Please stop teaching the world ethics, before that, look in the mirror and learn your history. And deal with your own history. Your real history, not the whitewashed one. Accept it. Learn from it, learn what you did wrong, and stop doing that.

Europe colonized all other people with inferior technology so they could enslave their people, steal their resources so they would feel richer and bossier over us.

Western civilization merely a lifetime ago, has pulled regular people like you and me from the streets regardless of who they are, they could be the brightest minds on earth, earthshaking ground breaking scientists, it didn’t matter to them, still put them into gas chambers to kill them, for the sole crime of belonging to an ethnic group.

And accuse us the same crime? To dilute the horrible crime your democratically elected leaders actually really did?

The ones your ancestors have tried to kill have escaped to our countries with the help of our diplomats! Why did they do that if Turkish people is the psychotic murderers you like to paint us?

But we got over it, we are not that people, we learned from our mistakes you say…

These “culturally and morally superior” White folk, who define non-white people as “savages” even cut of their children’s hands when the slave fathers couldn’t meet the quotas.

No! You still haven’t learned. Today Western world is just as brutal and just as imperialistic.

West still steals, still kills people in millions on the guise of bringing democracy.

West have caused a civil war in Libya just to get cheap oil.

USA killed 3 million civilians in Iraq.

Racism is still a BIG issue. It is almost impossible to hold a position of power even in a company in Canada. You still encounter racism daily if you are a “Schwarz Kopf” in Germany. People still get killed by police because of the color of their skins in USA.

Kill your TV. Kill your Social Media. They all lie to you. You are not the white knights. You are the baddies.

Seriously leave us “non-white”, “non-western”, “unfree”, “undemocratic” folk alone. We don’t need neither your gratification nor your contempt. Just turn to yourselves, look yourselves in a mirror.

entire civilization is built upon colonialism, slavery, and genocides, whose ancestors have either wiped off an entire continent of people and occupied their land.

Excerpt from the article of Hikmet C.

December 24, 2022
A Spectrum of Traditions

The New York Times

MY mother is a Christian from Austria and my father a Muslim from Turkey. They met and married in Paris and settled in Istanbul, my father’s home. I was born there and attended an Austrian school in the city. At 19, I moved to Austria to attend what is now the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

I’m 6-foot-2 and was good at basketball. While attending university, I was recruited to play semipro ball in Austria. As a result, it took me longer than usual to complete a combined undergraduate and graduate degree in economics, called a magister, in Austria. But it was worth it. I was able to be paid for my hobby and travel around Europe for tournaments.

My first job, in 1986, was in sales for Europay MasterCard, now MasterCard. I was responsible for signing up merchants such as hotels and restaurants. I rose to vice president for sales and marketing and left 10 years later to work for GE Capital as vice president for retail sales finance and then for consumer financing. A year later, in 1997, General Electric asked me to be national executive for GE Corporate as well, responsible for Austria.

In 1999, I joined Western Union Financial Services and held various executive positions and traveled throughout Europe and Asia. Over more than 25 years, I’ve learned how globalization works and how to navigate in new countries, traveling to 81 so far.

In January 2010, I was promoted to chief operating officer of the Western Union Company and moved to Colorado. Eight months later, I became president and C.E.O. Western Union had always been a brick-and-mortar company, where customers sent or received funds through our agents in grocery stores, post offices and the like. When I took over, I instituted a number of changes to modernize operations. Not only did we add more agent locations, but customers can now send money using a credit card. We also added prepaid cards and a mobile wallet application.

Last year, we bought Travelex Global Business Payments and introduced a business-to-business electronic money transfer service for importers and exporters and other small- and medium-size businesses. People are often surprised that Western Union has transformed itself in two years, but it’s still happened too slowly for me.

I can relate personally to one of these changes. My parents divorced years ago, and my mother moved to Vienna. My father, 88, still lives in Turkey. I’ve been sending him money for medicine and other needs every week for years, from whatever country I’m in. He has a cellphone but doesn’t use it. Before I became C.E.O., he had to walk a mile or two to the closest Western Union agent. Now there’s one much closer, and thousands of other people can send and receive funds in several ways.

We’ve been criticized for our fees, but we have been an industry leader in providing transparency to our customers about our prices. And we have millions of satisfied customers, which is why we continue to grow. We have just under an 18 percent market share in an extremely competitive environment for money transfers, and consumers have more options today as to how, where and when they can send money. I believe that in an open market, competition and consumer behavior determine the price.

Besides the diversity I experienced as a child, I married Nayantara Ghosh-Ersek, who is half-Austrian and half-Indian. We met in Austria. At home, we celebrate Christmas as well as Hindu and Muslim holidays. Our company serves a global population, so we pay attention to traditions around the world. Diversity attracts diversity.

As told to Patricia R. Olsen.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
First Published July 29, 2012 1:01 pm

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July 30, 2012
Western Union Responds to Turkey Earthquake

Western Union Responds to Turkey Earthquake

Company Offers “No Transfer Fee” to Turkey Earthquake Zone City of Van

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –Western Union Donates $50,000 and Sets Up Account Benefiting The Turkish Red Crescent

To help the victims of the most powerful earthquake to strike Turkey in more than a decade, The Western Union Company WU -0.03% , a leader in global payment services, in cooperation with its Agents, has activated a limited-time “No Transfer Fee”* program for money-transfers sent to Turkey Earthquake Zone city of Van, from participating Western Union(R) Agent locations around the world.

The “No Transfer Fee”* program to Turkey Earthquake Zone city of Van will be available Thursday, October 27, 2011 through Friday, November 25, 2011 and is subject to network, service and currency availability. Consumers sending money to Turkey may visit participating Western Union(R) Agent locations to send a money transfer to family and friends in Turkey or may do so over the phone or online at www.westernunion.com .

The Western Union Foundation today also donated $50,000 to the Turkish Red Crescent in support of disaster relief efforts. The Western Union Foundation will match registered employee donations to the Foundation designated for the Turkish Red Crescent, on a two-to-one match for U.S. employees and three-to-one match for employees outside the U.S., up to $100,000 per employee.

“Western Union stands together with the people of my home country Turkey at this time of need,” said Hikmet Ersek, President and CEO, Western Union. “The earthquake has generated a number of challenges for consumers and businesses operating in Turkey and Western Union is working with its Agents toward restoring full service as quickly as possible to people in affected regions. I express my deepest condolences to the families of the people who died and wish all the best to those who are injured.”

Additionally, for individuals and corporations wishing to donate to disaster relief efforts in Turkey, the Western Union Foundation has set-up an account where payments can be sent globally in locations equipped with the Western Union Quick Pay(SM), Quick Collect(R), or Payments service (Blue Form) — with Pay To identified as: WESTERN UNION FOUNDATION, Code City identified as: WUFOUNDATION, and Account # identified as: TURKEY — benefiting the Turkish Red Crescent. Western Union will provide consumers who wish to contribute with a fee-free* payment contribution service directed to Turkish Red Crescent, up to $5,000 through November 30, 2011.

*Western Union may make money on the exchange of currencies.

About Western Union

The Western Union Company WU -0.03% is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders. The Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services are offered through a combined network of approximately 485,000 Agent locations in 200 countries and territories. In 2010, The Western Union Company completed 214 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $76 billion of principal between consumers, and 405 million business payments. For more information, visit www.westernunion.com .

About the Western Union Foundation

Through Western Union’s Our World, Our Family(R) signature program, the Western Union Foundation supports initiatives to empower people through access to economic opportunity. Recognized by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy in 2009, the program is a five-year, $50 million commitment reflecting efforts made by Western Union employees, agents and partners around the world. Since its inception, the Western Union Foundation has awarded more than $73.8 million in grants to more than 2,030 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in 108 countries and territories. To learn more, visit westernunionfoundation.org

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Copyright Business Wire 2011

via Western Union Responds to Turkey Earthquake – MarketWatch.

October 28, 2011