'You need to be white to win': skin-whitening campaign causes uproar...

Even in a country where many Thai women are obsessed with whitening their skin a YouTube video has provoked uproar.

The video posted by cosmetic maker Seoul Secret Thailand features two images, one of actress Sirin "Cris" Horwang and the other of a model whose skin has been darkened.

Ms Horwang, 35, starts by talking about her struggles in the entertainment industry and how she must work to keep her skin white to stay on top.

"You just need to be white to win," she says in a pitch for viewers to take the company's whitening cream called Snowz.

Ms Horwang tells viewers that if she stopped taking the cream all her investment in skin tone would disappear and she would become a "dusky star", just as the screen shows the black model looking downcast and dismayed. More + video...

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