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Cultural cringe, in cultural studies and social anthropology, is the controversial idea that some national cultures suffer from an internalized inferiority complex which causes people in those countries to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries.
The term is most commonly used in Australia, where it is widely (although not universally) accepted as a fact of Australian cultural life, and in New Zealand. Many cultural commentators in Canada have also suggested that a similar process operates in that country as well, although the specific phrase "cultural cringe" is not widely used to label the phenomenon in Canada.
The idea of cultural cringe was defined by Australian sociologists Brian Head and James Walter as the belief that one's country occupies a "subordinate cultural place on the periphery", and that "intellectual standards are set and innovations occur elsewhere". As a consequence, a person who holds this belief is inclined to devalue their own country's cultural, academic and artistic life, and to venerate the "superior" culture of another country. | That made me laugh.
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