Are you white washed??, ......... Options

[*mzkandi*]

Ok I searched of course and I didnt find anything on this, so.....

Do you consider yourself white washed?

1. Whitewashed
To be assimilated into the N.A society, forgetting your own language and culture and tries to act like a white person to gain acceptance. Looked down upon both of the cultures he/she supposedly belongs in.


2. whitewashed
When a person who isn't white forgets their culture and acts like a white person.
Billy: I'm moving to Texas.
Sally: I hope you don't get whitewashed
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whitewashed

I had an interesting conversion about this with a friend (who is black) that considers herself "whitewashed" and then that got me thinking so I did a little research on it.

[me1issaaaa]

My best friend Jordan is. People call her Oreo.

[Nicolatofu]

i just conversed with my friend about this a while ago. I am not whitewashed. True mexican, yo -beats chest-
But I am half white..

[YourSuperior]

I'm not, people may think so. But I got my dog gone black cultures. I just talk really proper when I want to.

[ThePrincessofTKD]

wow. it sounds like being white-washed is bad or something.

i`m not white-washed. i`m pretty sure of it.

[yummy_delight]

Unfortunately, I think I am.

I don't think I would be, if I actually understood Tagalog. It's difficult to immerse myself in Filipino culture and that way of life when I can't speak the language. I can relate more to American culture because English is my primary language.

[shortiiex]

i think that my cousin is.....but i hang out with white people..and i am not a typical asian...but i still know i am asian and i love it

[Spirited Away]

I'm accused of being whitewashed. These stupid little girls would tell me how whitewashed I am for not celebrating such and such holidays or for not speaking Vietnamese when I'm around Vietnamese. I hate to tell them that it's simply a preference of mine and that I could beat them all in a writing/reading/culture/history test. But ah... people will say what they wanna say.

[x____tragic]

um.
i dont consider myself white washed.
i dont listen to "asian music" i guess you would call it.
or i dont dress asian.
but i still speak viet, and stuff

[avalon*]

I'm accused of being whitewashed. These stupid little girls would tell me how whitewashed I am for not celebrating such and such holidays or for not speaking Vietnamese when I'm around Vietnamese. I hate to tell them that it's simply a preference of mine and that I could beat them all in a writing/reading/culture/history test. But ah... people will say what they wanna say.

Whoa, I didn't know you were Asian. Interesting..you learn something new every day

Anyhow, yeah I think I'm sorta whitewashed, although I probably used to be more so when I was in middle school/early high school, but I'm still sort of.

[lilliannnn]

I am white.. But one of my black friends says she is.

[*basick*]

i dont think so

[Aestuarium]

no*

[Looow]

i just conversed with my friend about this a while ago. I am not whitewashed. True mexican, yo -beats chest-

Hahahahaha! That seriously made me laugh. Oh Nicole, you're so funny.

Hmm I think I'm kind of white washed. I can act white or whatever sometimes but I think I'm a "true mexican" like Nicole says. rofl. Yeah, I'm very much into my culture.

(I don't know what I just said )

[Spirited Away]

Whoa, I didn't know you were Asian. Interesting..you learn something new every day

lol.. yea.. i'm mixed.. but more Asian than anything when you look at me.

[xchrystizzle]

i think im a bit white washed....

[Paradox of Life]

I'm whitewashed completely, but I don't do it for attention. I was born in the USA; how do you expect me to speak Vietnamese and know about my culture? I don't even go by the same religion as most Vietnamese (Buddhism). I'm whitewashed and proud, I guess. I'd rather be white than asian and I don't really have any asian pride.

[5ayuri]

No I don't think I'm white washed. I speak more english than spanish but I htink that's it.

[angel-roh]

Interesting topic.


But no, I'm not whitewashed. I'm a fob ---- the biggest fob can be.


But my sister is whitewashed. She hates fob people. SO she doesn't like when I'm always around her when I'm with my friends.

[*danielle_x3*]

I'm semi-whitewashed. I still stay true to my culture, but I'm a little Americanized.

[YourSuperior]

oh...like...YAY-NESS...and AWESOME, right?

I don't say yay-ness. That's May Lissa. I say awesome sometimes though. I hope that doesn't consider me white washed because I say a word.

[*AngelicEyz00*]

I'm not a true Mexican. Perhaps I am a bit white-washed. Doesn't matter. I've always said I was.

[emazing]

No, I'm not whitewashed.
I love && speak Vietnamese to my relatives, but yeah, my main language is English, and well. D'oh. <3.
The american culture rocks.

[*incoherent*]

i cant be whitewashed. im white. but i know tons of people that are "black"washed i guess. white people trying to be gangsta.

[SMiLEEFORMEE]

nahh not really lol.. interesting word "whitewashed" aha

[silver-rain]

Yeah, I'm definitely white-washed. I live in a mostly white community and I went to a white elementary and middle school. I did not know that much about my culture and other Asian cultures other than what I learned from my parents. But, I don't speak Chinese, nor can I read or write it. It was really until I went to my high school, which is predominately asian that I suppose I "reconnected" with my Asian side... But I still think I'm white-washed and my boyfriend jokes around with me about that.

[gelionie]

Nope I guess not.
Even when I was living in Australia when I was small, I still learned Chinese so I wouldn't consider myself as whitewashed.

[sheddingtears]

nah, ive still got my roots and im still down with it...
though i mainly speak and write in english.

[Sumiaki]

Nope. I don't try to act white and be accepted. I act the way I want to act and well to most people that comes off as whitewashed. Oh well.

[*Azarel*]

I'm accused of being whitewashed. These stupid little girls would tell me how whitewashed I am for not celebrating such and such holidays or for not speaking Vietnamese when I'm around Vietnamese. I hate to tell them that it's simply a preference of mine and that I could beat them all in a writing/reading/culture/history test. But ah... people will say what they wanna say.

I love you, you fob!

[gigiopolis]

In some subtle ways, yes, but that's only from living in North America for 13 years. But most people I know (including myself) consider myself not to be whitewashed, especially when I live in a place where something like 50% of the population is Asian.

I celebrate all the Chinese holidays, I speak the language, I watch the TV, I listen to the music, and if Canada were up against China/Hong Kong in some Olympic event, you bet I'd root for the Chinese team.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

im not white-washed , nor am i (asian-washed)....im just myself

[[Mediocre]Artist]

Can you be black-washed? Cause thats what I was for the first 13 years of my life.

[heyyfrankie]

i'm half mexican but i'm pretty much whitewashed.

[pinklove_stains]

semi-white washed , since ive never been to africa, and don't see much africans here in asia and when i go to paris to see my family everyone there seem whitewashed too or should i say frenchwashed

[DullStringedGuit...]

nope..i still hav an accent....so yea..

[baller30]

My best friend Jordan is. People call her Oreo.

Yea that's my nickname at school because i am "whitewashed", but i was never really black to begin with because my parents are from Ghana which is in west Africa, and they don't act like black people here so... yea

[sharerol]

Ummm....I guess you can say I'm partially white-washed. I don't speak/write/read Chinese, though I can understand some. Haha. I enjoy watching some Asian films. I don't watch any Asian channels or listen to any of that type of music. So I sorta am white-washed. Yeah...

[KELLYYY]

Ummm....I guess you can say I'm partially white-washed.  I don't speak/write/read Chinese, though I can understand some.  Haha.  I enjoy watching some Asian films.  I don't watch any Asian channels or listen to any of that type of music.  So I sorta am white-washed.  Yeah...

I don't think I'm white-washed. Am I? I don't think so.

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

maybe im a bit white-washed .. but i do know a lot about my culture

[starlette]

I guess I'm kinda white washed...even tho its understandable seeing as I knew maybe one black person befroe I was 10 years old...my whole family is black as well. in elementary school I only had one non white friend...in junior high I had only 2. It wasnt really until 9th grade that I started making friends with more people...and really it wasnt that I didnt like other people, it was that people, especially black people, would talk about how I was too white. I cant help it tho. being half white wasnt my choice. SO yeah, the few friends I haddidnt really care. Everyone else hated on me. Expecially in high school when I started losing wieght and getting pretty. lol. so yeah. Its hard for me becuase I just am who I am. I wouldnt consider it white washed, because I dont try to do the things I do. I'm just a product of my environment.

[crazeegirl411]

I'm whitewashed completely, but I don't do it for attention. I was born in the USA; how do you expect me to speak Vietnamese and know about my culture? I don't even go by the same religion as most Vietnamese (Buddhism). I'm whitewashed and proud, I guess. I'd rather be white than asian and I don't really have any asian pride. 

Well I was born in Canada, lived in Vegas for 9 years...

In some subtle ways, yes, but that's only from living in North America for 13 years. But most people I know (including myself) consider myself not to be whitewashed, especially when I live in a place where something like 50% of the population is Asian.

I celebrate all the Chinese holidays, I speak the language, I watch the TV, I listen to the music, and if Canada were up against China/Hong Kong in some Olympic event, you bet I'd root for the Chinese team.

Me too...I do celebrate Chinese holidays (around the house, Chinese New Year is way more important), I watch Chinese (Hong Kong..TVB) dramas, but then, I wouldn't know who to root for because I'm from Canada too =P.

My culture is really both, and split halfway. Sometimes in my thoughts, it would be in Cantonese, sometimes it would be in English. I love Chinese music way more, I love American and Chinese food. I celebrate both holidays. I watch American movies, but Chinese series. When I speak Cantonese to my mother sometimes, a few English words pop up. Sometimes when I speak English too, I'd think of better words to describe a situation in Cantonese.

One thing is probably the fact that I can't write chinese (at least I can write my own name). I can read a LITTLE bit, like enough to know a few in everything, but not enough to read sentences.

You see...I'm both, exactly.

[parallel]

Um. No. Not sure if I know someone like that either.

[*disco infiltrator*]

^ My thoughts exactly.

How exactly do you act white? I've asked this many times and no one has been able to tell me.

And yea I'm white-washed. Isn't that surprising?

[HongKongDong]

^^You are white

I'm black washed, grew up around black people and mexicanos. Moved to a white community and now im getting dumbed down, soon to be white-washed. Trying not to be =P

[sadolakced acid]

am i?

if you mean i don't do stupid things because it's asian to do them, then i guess so.

but err...
i'd say half.

well, mindy's whitewashed.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

im actually preeetyyy far from it. i speak ebonics fluently [ lol ] and i know some spanish and some tagalog. but if i want to i can speak really proper and with eloquence and whatnot but thats ony when i want to seem smart [:

[Im So Vain]

I hope Im not. People say that I sound like a white person sometimes And usually its my own Liberian people who tell me that, or they either call me valley girl, but I could care less. I mean what can I say I live in California. But I dont really see how I could be since I did grow up in a place full of mostly Mexicans, and a few blacks. But whatever.

[DrSMooTH]

My best friend Jordan is. People call her Oreo.

that's just being an ass. anyway, i don't think i'm white-washed. i have tendencies to act that way sometimes, but i wouldn't consider myself to be white-washed.

[Angel_Cece]

nope. although i like saying like... hmm i hope im not discriminating here. but i have some white friends and my black friends and family say i sound white, when i say "like".

[DrSMooTH]

i cant be whitewashed. im white. but i know tons of people that are "black"washed i guess. white people trying to be gangsta.

hahaha. the "wigga". i see those a lot. Some can pull it off though.

[mouse_3k]

Hell no. I hate wiggaz so stupid.