https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3 Choose one or more of the following questions to discuss with your peers. Be sure to comment on other people's posts. 1. What does it mean to be “white washed”? 2. Has anyone ever told you that you were “white washed”? How did that feel? Do you agree/disagree? 3. How is assimilation similar to the concept of “white washing”? en-us 2020-09-02 20:18:38 UTC 2025-11-23 02:25:51 UTC hello@padlet.com ce032093 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/732486666 Being white washed means that someone is assuming things about your race, either if its from the kind of food you eat or your family background, someone could say the kinds of food they eat like a Hispanic person doesn't eat Mexican food and never has or was never a family tradition and it would be considered wrong or not normal. ]]> 2020-09-09 18:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/732486666 gf028508 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735051697 Has anyone ever told you that you were “white washed”?  How did that feel? Do you agree/disagree? I can not count the amount of times I've been called white washed by my friends and family. I felt annoyed and disrespected. The fact that I have an education or certain things a huge majority of people have like Nike brands or something like that should not automatically make me white washed and completely wash out any other race that I have. Just because i talk a certain way with different groups of people it doesn't mean i'm any less Asian or Mexican. I don't agree with the people that call me white washed.]]> 2020-09-10 14:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735051697 ac036678 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735054396 It means to be white washed for me when you show intellegence or your working beyond peoples expections.ive been called white washed by other black people but white people also make fun of the way I talk sometimes so it feels like im too black for the white kids and too white for the black kids ]]> 2020-09-10 14:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735054396 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735062533 When I went back home to visit my family, my cousins called me white-washed because I always wore shoes when I went outside, I didn't eat with my fingers, I had more education than them and because of the way I talked. They said I was trying to act like an American when I'm not. That bothered me a lot because it made me feel like I didn't belong, I wasn't enough. They said that I'm acting like an American person and forgetting where I came from.]]> 2020-09-10 14:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735062533 hw026672 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735073440 i have never been called that before , probably because i am white but i think it means that if a person is acting or just used to doing things that are in a different culture  of white , and people call them white washed because they are doing something a white person would do and etc . But i don't agree with calling someone that because we are all different in our own ways and calling someone that is selfish  .]]> 2020-09-10 14:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735073440 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735074092  Usually when called white washed what their really trying to say is your not acting your race, speaking different, and eating different type of food but not everyone is going to stick to their cultures food some might but it's not necessary or not everyone will speak the exact same we all have a different accent even if we're the same race. Sometimes being called white wash can mean your more educated too.  ]]> 2020-09-10 14:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735074092 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735089048 Danielle Sanchez-   When I was hanging out with some of my friends, that were the same race as me, called me white wash because I didn't listen to some music that wasn't in Spanish or I didn't speak a lot of Spanish either. It made me a little made because a lot of people when they first meet me they think I'm white and I've met some people that have said some things to me in Spanish, thinking I wouldn't understand them, when I did. And since then I hated being called white wash or anything like that because it just gets me mad. ]]> 2020-09-10 14:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735089048 ma033731 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735098446 Being white washed means that someone is assuming about you race. Just because of their food preferences weren't aline with their culture, they don't speak a certain way,  or they hang out with people outside of their own race. ]]> 2020-09-10 14:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735098446 am068572 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735099435 I think that being whitewashed means that someone is making assumptions based on your race and judging you for not being more like the dominant group. I've never been called whitewashed and I don't agree with someone being called whitewashed. Assimilation is when a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group and the concept of whitewashed is that someone from a different culture is resembling white culture.]]> 2020-09-10 14:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735099435 hh035611 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735105698 I have never been called white washed but i have a little cousin named jr who has been white washed. He would speak good Spanish and years later went i went to see him i would talk to him in Spanish, he looks at me all confused and he is only 13 years old. And he has been white washed because he has been going to american school and plus he moved to america.]]> 2020-09-10 14:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735105698 cg067127 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735166464 Being "white washed" means that you are simply acting different than how they think you have to be. Many don't realize it's rude to do so. It's awful, especially when you likely don't know everything about them to insinuate that someone has abandoned his or her culture.]]> 2020-09-10 14:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735166464 dh024863 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735169061 I have been called white washed because I'm not fluent in Spanish, for not eating chilies, for not doing certain things that a "real Mexican" does, for not eating the same type of foods, for not having certain things in my house, and for not listening to the same type of music. This makes me feel disrespected and filled with anger because I was never taught to speak Spanish growing up but I make an effort to speak it and I work just as hard as "real Mexicans" do.   ]]> 2020-09-10 14:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735169061 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735254119 Being white washed mean that someone is talk about your race. I have a brother who has been white washed because  he been here for too long. When I ask him to do something in marshallese he don't do it but when  I ask him to do something in english he do it quickly. ]]> 2020-09-10 14:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735254119 https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735398221 What being "white washed" means is that someone with a different culture is not acting the way others expect people from that culture to act like, so that makes them white washed because they are doing things that a white person would do or acting in a way that a white person would. Calling someone white washed is not okay and I do not agree with it because that is a very offensive thing to say.]]> 2020-09-10 15:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/scate1/jkwgairg6vhmakv3/wish/735398221