whitewashed

== English == === Etymology === From whitewash + -ed. === Verb === whitewashed simple past and past participle of whitewash === Adjective === whitewashed (comparative more whitewashed, superlative most whitewashed) Painted with the temporary paint whitewash. Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed. Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite). 2012, Stuart Hallerman, quoted in Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Crown (→ISBN), page 59: Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird. It took me years to kinda deal with, Is this a real city? Where are the other people? (by extension, derogatory) A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity. 2016, anonymous pageant participant, in Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, U of Minnesota Press (→ISBN), page 86: She tries to portray that she is the Japanese American woman. That she is very cultured in a Japanese way but she is not! She is very whitewashed. ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “removed, ignored, downplayed”): blackwashed