whitewashed

v. 粉饰, 美化, 掩饰( whitewash的过去式和过去分词 )

词形变化

more whitewashed 比较级 most whitewashed 最高级

adj.

1.

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).

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?
4.

A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.

贬义引申义

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.

形容词

From whitewash + -ed.

来源：wiktionary