This research paper, as it appears from its title, deals with some of the dimensions of the wide thematic field that arises from the concept of whiteness. The choice of the term "whitewash" was made because it literally means calcification, or to paint something exclusively white, while figuratively it is interpreted as concealing and hiding the truth, but also as the disappearance of passions, as purification. A browse is conducted between different expressions and manifestations of the concept of whiteness, which in addition to their pure color reference are found either as linguistic idioms, or as symbolism or as racial or gender discrimination. Then whiteness is compared with emptiness and examples are given with white being perceived as empty, as a neutral background, as a clean canvas, but also used not only in aesthetics, but in repression as a means of psychological coercion too, as happened in the case of white cells. White appears in folk architecture as a result of sanitary methods through calcification and ripolin. But apart from a clinical or visual sterilization, the concept of white and cleanness also acquires a symbolic connotation and is associated with spirituality and morality. White has been identified many times with the absolute, the right and the supreme. To the extent that the absence of color, whiteness, receives the above positive semantic charges, necessarily on the contrary, the strong presence of color is treated as an indication of lack of pure meaning, as an unrefined optics, as something inferior or subordinate. Finally, whiteness is also approached as a Greek element. The elements that contribute to a generalized image of the whiteness of Greece are analyzed, with the creations of antiquity, Cyclades, the White Houses and Athens with the pentelic marble of the Parthenon, acting as white trademarks.