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

The success of Sydney in 2000 told Australians they were as capable as any other first world nation and it was time to banish the cultural cringe.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012

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