cultural cringe

noun

Definitions

  1. In Australia, a formerly widespread belief that Australian cultural works, especially in…

    In Australia, a formerly widespread belief that Australian cultural works, especially in literature and the arts, were inferior to those produced in Britain and Europe.

    • Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

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