cultural cringe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 cultural cringe has evaporated and Australia is now a super-confident country with high expectations of quality and service - a country at the top of its game."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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
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
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