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.
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.
by New Webster's Dictionary May 02, 2010
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
2. to make something undesirable, damaging seem legitimate or acceptable, usually by falsification or concealment
by The Return of Light Joker September 30, 2009
(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.
by SugarBear August 16, 2005
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.
by mr. fluffy December 13, 2006
Wow she just came to this country yet she doesn't have the slightest accent and rocks our style! She is soo whitewash.
by raspberry13 December 10, 2007
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
by Kyle March 22, 2005
An individual who is of North American of minority ethnicity who shares displays similar speech patterns as well as common taste and fashion as American Whites.
Such symptoms of a person who is whitewashed include the use of the word "like" as every other word, extensive wardrobe collection of Abercrombie & Fitch, a love of indie rock, and vulgar displays of cockblocking.
Such symptoms of a person who is whitewashed include the use of the word "like" as every other word, extensive wardrobe collection of Abercrombie & Fitch, a love of indie rock, and vulgar displays of cockblocking.
"Vashni is from India but she has, like no accent at all. And omigod! Look at those sandals with the socks she's wearing! Damn, she is like totally whitewashed."
"I asked that fool Eric if he was coming to the Kwanzaa party and he said no, he had tickets to see The All American Rejects...what a whitewashed chump!"
"I asked that fool Eric if he was coming to the Kwanzaa party and he said no, he had tickets to see The All American Rejects...what a whitewashed chump!"
by HaloedGriot May 26, 2006