whitewashed

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
 * 2) Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
 * 3) 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).
 * 4) * 2012, Stuart Hallerman, quoted in Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Crown (ISBN 9780307464446), page 59:
 * Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin&#39; 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?
 * 1) * 2016', anonymous pageant participant, in Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, U of Minnesota Press (ISBN 9781452909103), 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.
 * 1) * 2016', anonymous pageant participant, in Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, U of Minnesota Press (ISBN 9781452909103), 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.