A blanket term that describes how Producers and/or Directors play fast and loose with character gender, phenomal variant or sexual orientation. Perhaps they think that appealing to everyone will gain them the audience of... everyone but it very quickly ceases to be amusing. In some cases it can even be disturbing.
They cast a black female as Ann Boleyn!
Decades before England knew black people existed? That is EthnoWashing.
Decades before England knew black people existed? That is EthnoWashing.
by CryHavoc February 5, 2021
When you hire a person from a minority ethnic background to speak and defend on behalf of your racist and xenophobic ideologies.
The chancellor of exchequer is a perfect example of ethnowashing. Taking a member of ethnic minority who represents racially biased ideology, where someone who is successful and from a minority is somehow an exception to the rule.
by Jambalaya2 September 24, 2022