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cultural cringe in British Englishnounthe perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country Examples of 'cultural cringe' in a sentencecultural cringe It's tempting to interpret these installations as post-recessionary apologia to shopping; a cultural cringe.It was at best a cultural cringe, at worst wickedly archaic.The cultural cringe had straightened up into a swagger.Too often the establishment is guilty of cultural cringe.On its web-site, however, the cultural cringe is evident and double standards obtain.The cultural cringe in this case is one problem, but it reminds us of a wider one.You've got a craven cultural cringe about your country and you disdain what is right rather than what is fashionable.So much so that they fell back on the hackneyed jokes of the cultural cringe for a comeback. |