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How Do You Know When You Are Whitewash?

#1 BORGUSX

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 02:42 PM

I was wondering about how do you know when you are whitewash? I know that you can be Americanized, but whitewash come on! People been telling me that I'm whitewash, but I don't know how?

#2 chocomocha

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:02 PM

what does whitewash means anyways?

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#3 xreminisce

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:07 PM

QUOTE(chocomocha @ Jun 22 2007, 05:02 PM)

what does whitewash means anyways?

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white washed
Someone who is looked at as leaving behind or neglecting their culture and assimilating to a white, western culture.

That exchange student has really been white washed

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uhmmm when someone is "washed" it means they act like another nationality then their own. Usually and mots commonly used for white-washed but could be used as "yellow-washed" or "black-washed"

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:10 PM

I'm just going to assume you're vietnamese from that link to your facebook.

Other people probably call you "whitewashed" because you can't speak vietnamese and you don't know anything about vietnamese culture and seem to be more involved in the "american" culture.

edit* not saying you ARE any of that... i'm just stating what usually causes people to think someone else is "whitewashed"

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#5 z(-3-)z

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:18 PM

me and my friends used to call one of our vietnamese friends whitewash
because he didnt do or know the things that they did..since they were asian too
so i guess youll know when you sort of start forgetting what your culture does and start doing or getting into too many things that..um..white people do

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Posted 22 June 2007 - 03:19 PM

People say I'm not whitewashed. Because they say I'm too Asian. oO;
That's because I can speak Chinese (Canto. and Mandarin) fluently and everyone seems to know I want to learn Japanese and Korean. I also only listen to Jpop and Kpop, nothing "Western".