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Thai cosmetics company pulls ad depicting blackface

January 17, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) — “You just need to be white to win.”

A skin-whitening ad in Thailand featuring that slogan alongside a famous actress in blackface makeup sparked such outrage that the company pulled it Friday, Jan. 8, just a day after releasing it. The retraction did little, however, to stem a debate the ad ignited about the regularity of racist advertisements in the Southeast Asian country.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2016, Associated Press, Black Man, CEO, Cris Horwang, Dunkin Donuts, Miss Thailand World, Nattasuda Anusonadisai, Nonthawan Thongleng, Seoul Secret, Southeast Asian, TV, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, social media

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May 16, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Actor Julia Ling Chuck, Actor Masi Oka, Asian Pacific Islander American, Blue Ginger, Brown University, Daniel Dae Kim Lost, Dunkin Donuts, Dwayne Johnson, Half Samoan, Ming Tsai, Ring Magazine, TV, UCLA, WWF, White Castle, Yale University

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