cultural cringe

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noun

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

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Words nearby cultural cringe

cultrate, cultural, cultural anthropology, cultural appropriation, cultural capital, cultural cringe, cultural diversity, cultural exchange, cultural imperialism, culturalize, cultural lag

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Example sentences from the Web for cultural cringe

These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So my way to point out his cultural cluelessness is to be even more clueless?
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Instead, local life is defined by cultural products that are more national or more global—think of the Sunday New York Times.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This organization marked the formal beginning of Richmond as a cultural center in Virginia.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
Education, the "backbone" of cultural activities, is one of the most challenging current problems facing Virginia.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
And then, that a thought should knock me prone, and make me cringe—from the mere fact of its lowness and meanness!
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
They belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

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