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What is WHITEWASHED?

Whitewashing is the alteration of a characters skin tone, from black/brown to white. This is also racist due to the harmful anti black history whitewashing black characters has. In America (euro-centric features were seen as a beauty standard that bpoc (black poc) couldn’t fit. Changing a black character to look white removes the little representation for black people while also conveying an anti black message.

β€œ__ drew a dark skin character as lightskin, so it’s whitewashing”

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WHITEWASHED - what is it?

It basically means to let go of your nationality and acting in ways "white".

Wow she just came to this country yet she doesn't have the slightest accent and rocks our style! She is soo whitewash.

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What does "WHITEWASHED" mean?

A term used, apparently, only where it snows. A whitewash is when you grab somebody by the back of the head, usually when wrestling, and rub their face into the snow. This is a technique primarily used during snowball fights. Made better when the whitewashee bleeds. Distant relative: the swirly.

Dude, AJ face-planted while boarding today, and Chris whitewashed him on the bunny hill!!

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WHITEWASHED - what does it mean?

To be assimilated into the N.A society, forgetting your own language and culture and tries to act like a white person to gain acceptance. Looked down upon both of the cultures he/she supposedly belongs in.

Connie Chung is straight up whitewashed, yo.
Ya, lookit the way she tries to act white. Pathetic

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WHITEWASHED - meaning

When a person who isn't white forgets their culture and acts like a white person.

Billy: I'm moving to Texas.
Sally: I hope you don't get whitewashed.

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WHITEWASHED - definition

(n., v., or adj.) A process or result or act: when a person who is considered a minority adopts a lifestyle (including speech, mannerisms, clothing, etc.) that is attributed secludedly to those of European descent, white people.

1. She is whitewashed.

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WHITEWASHED - slang

1. to win decisively, especially before the other side can achieve a single goal

2. to make something undesirable, damaging seem legitimate or acceptable, usually by falsification or concealment

They Just whitewashed the election.

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WHITEWASHED

A term that now has also come to refer to the entertainment industry's attempt at making ethnic characters more appealing to the white, money-spending masses by making exotic characters less ethnic and more "white."

Isn't Chun Li supposed to be 100% Chinese? Why did Hollywood totally whitewash her and cast a half-asian actress to play her in that horrible new Street Fighter movie??

Thanks to commercial whitewashing, every token "black" girl on tv has become a light skinned black girl. This does not bode well for dark skinned black actresses.

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WHITEWASHED

Someone who doesn’t act their race from racist stereotypes. But this is not true. From someone doesn’t speak their native language that doesn’t mean they’re whitewashed.

Jane Doe: I’m Mexican but I don’t speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music

John Doe: I hate people like you. So whitewashed .

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WHITEWASHED

A derogatory term used to describe a minority who has assimilated with western society. The "White washed" person does not necessarily abandon his/her own culture but rather embrace others beside his/her own. Some people take it as a compliment while others take it as an insult.

Just because I am open minded does not mean I am whitewashed. Get it straight!

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