white wash

someone who is looked at as leaving behind or neglecting their culture and -ssimilating to a white, western culture.
that exchange student has really been white washed
(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.
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 m-sses 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.
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!!
a non-white person who tries to act/appear white.
latisha shops at abercrombie & fitch with ruth. she is so white-washed!
when a college basketball team of lesser talent inserts five small white guys against a stronger, more athletic team. special thanks to espn’s bill simmons
man, bucknell totally whitewashed kansas for the upset
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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