[ephennaCypota]

What I find sad is how society or whatever has encouraged the development of a sort of self-hate in some Thai people, particularly girls who are born with darker skin.
This false ideal that the whiter you are the more beautiful you are is reinforced by the media every single day. Look at all the popular stars on television and in the music industry in Thailand. What about the huge popularity of skin-whitening creams? Very sad.
Also, more distressing than sad is the superiority complex the these so called upper class light-skinned people seem to have.
In Japan they have the same "white is beautiful" mentality, they even have a word for it-Bihaku("Bi" from the character for beautiful +"haku" from the character for white) -however there is no perceived class difference based on skin colour.
It just makes me sad that some people walk around thinking they are better than others for no other reasons than skin colour.