"whitewashed" meaning in English

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        "Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash."
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          "ref": "2012, Stuart Hallerman, quoted in Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Crown, page 59",
          "text": "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?"
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          "ref": "2015, JeffriAnne Wilder, Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century, ABC-CLIO, page 12",
          "text": "[…] the “scandal” over actress Kerry Washington's seemingly whitewashed skin on the cover of the February 2015 InStyle Magazine, […]",
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          "ref": "2017, Rebecca Janicker, Reading American Horror Story: Essays on the Television Franchise, McFarland",
          "text": "By casting Paulson in this role while continuing to describe her characters in this way, the show applies racist speech to a whitewashed body, thereby appropriating the history but erasing the bodies of Chang and Eng. This whitewashing ignores the [...] racism [...] that inform[s] both Chang and Eng's story […]",
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          "ref": "2016', anonymous pageant participant, in Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, U of Minnesota Press, page 86",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "2021, Dave Zirin, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, The New Press, page 153",
          "text": "\"Beyond that the thinking was, 'Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, so how is the United States still racist?' That's kind of the mind-set I grew up in. Going to a public school in a very white state, I was given a very whitewashed education.\"",
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        },
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