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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.
Noun
blanqueamiento (uncountable)
- The process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region or enforcing white cultural norms on a population.
2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84: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.
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Spanish
Etymology
From blanquear + -miento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blankeaˈmjento/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: blan‧que‧a‧mien‧to
Noun
blanqueamiento m (plural blanqueamientos)
- whitening, whitewashing, bleaching (the process of making something white or whiter)
- Synonym: blanqueo
- whitewashing (a deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about a person or organization in order to protect their reputation)
- money laundering (the act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money)
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