cultural cringe

British  

noun

1. the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country

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Example Sentences

Baker, the actor, who is based in New South Wales, believes “Australians have a little bit of a cultural cringe with seeing their own accent on the screen” and “an inferiority complex,” he said.

From New York Times • May 21, 2021

Historians such as Geoffrey Blainey, who wrote "The Tyranny of Distance" in 1966, explained Australia's "cultural cringe" and parochialism as a product of the continent's historic isolation and vast distance from the colonial power, Britain.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2014

But if we’re really honest, when it comes to our national television most of us are a little guilty of cultural cringe – "a disease of the Australian mind", as A A Phillips famously wrote.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2013

But what I hate is the sloppy loss of our own distinctive phraseology through sheer idleness, lack of self-awareness and our attitude of cultural cringe.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2011

Perhaps for the first time, Australians had lost their cultural cringe, a unique type of insecurity alien to can-do cultures such as that found in the US.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette