Blanqueamiento
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region, encouraging interracial marriage with white people, or enforcing white cultural norms on a population. uncountable
"Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race."
Example
More examples"Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.