Usually means: Erasing cultural identity through casting.
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  1. whitewashing: Merriam-Webster
  2. whitewashing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whitewashing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whitewashing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Whitewashing, whitewashing: Wordnik
  6. whitewashing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. whitewashing: Wiktionary
  8. whitewashing: Dictionary.com
  9. whitewashing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Whitewashing (beauty), Whitewashing (censorship), Whitewashing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Whitewashing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Whitewashing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. whitewashing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. whitewashing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. whitewashing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whitewashing: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whitewashing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whitewashing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whitewashing)

noun:  The application of whitewash.
noun:  (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
noun:  (derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of non-whites in an event and focusing on only white participation.

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