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

He tackled the nation's cultural cringe too by introducing Australia's own honours system and introducing free access to universities, which saw a wave of people become the first in their families to receive higher education.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2014

Once Australia suffered what people called the "cultural cringe" towards Europe.

From The Guardian • Apr. 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