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Cultural Cringe
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The Cultural Cringe is an internalized inferiority complex that causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to that of other countries. Such people will thus tend to discount a lot of their own culture and embrace another country's 'better' culture instead. In fact, it's common for people suffering from Cultural Cringe to disavow that their own country has a legitimate national culture at all. There are many possible reasons for this, but one is due to it being true what they say: familiarity breeds contempt. Other cultures can seem so much more exotic and interesting when you don't know much about them, and don't have to actually live with their more negative aspects day in and day out. Australian literary critic and social commentator A. A. Phillips named and codified the trope with his 1950 Meanjin essay "The Cultural Cringe", in which he observed this behavior — specifically feelings of inferiority towards Britain — in rampant abundance among his contemporary fellow Australians. (This is also why it's a part of Australia's Useful Notes, along with Tall Poppy Syndrome.) This trope is at least Older Than Radio, though, enough so that among the people Gilbert and Sullivan felt "would not be missed" was: This isn't necessarily the opposite of Patriotic Fervor, though it may of course arise as a (possibly overcompensatory) reaction to it. Nor is it quite the same thing as Boomerang Bigotry. Someone with the Cringe may still love his/her country and national heritage despite its supposed inferiority. As one may put it, their own culture may suck, but it's still their culture. The flip side of (and often combined with) Foreign Culture Fetish. Compare Internalized Categorism, in which the character starts hating themselves for being a part of a culture perceived by others as "bad," rather than merely seeing their culture as inferior to other cultures. See also Boomerang Bigot, where the character might feel anything from their own ethnicity to their species is inferior, rather than feeling their country and its culture specifically is inferior, in comparison with another country and its culture. See also Cultural Rebel, who may or may not suffer from this trope. Compare Cargo Cult and My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting. Also compare Stop Being Stereotypical and Cultural Personality Makeover, as something unique to a specific culture can often end up being dismissed as a negative stereotype by members of that culture. Never Accepted in His Hometown may also contain elements of this. Contrast Cultural Posturing. |
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Genshin Impact: The game's title is written in Japanese (Genshin) rather than Chinese (Yuan-Shen) even though the game was made in China. According to Accented Cinema, this is because even the Chinese developers are aware of China's reputation for Shoddy Knockoff Products. | |
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Dragon Age: Due to being a Deconstructor Fleet to High Fantasy, this comes up a bit. Dragon Age II: Hawke's Best Friend Varric Tethras is a surface dwarf whose family are exiled dwarven nobility. They were born underground and lost everything when they were banished to the surface, and miss the family glory that he never got since he was born on the surface. As a result, Varric is very vocally critical of Orzammar dwarven culture, finding them all to be rigid, haughty, stuck-up elitists who think they're better than everyone else because they "live in a hole in the ground" and that "their great-great-grandfather made a water clock or something." He often extols the virtues of surface human culture, finding it much more fun, casual, and laid-back than dwarven culture. Dragon Age: Inquisition: Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangster Sera is an elf who hates and distances herself from other Enslaved Elves. Part of it is due to internalized racism due to humans looking down on her for being an elf and elves looking down on her for being raised by humans. Part of it is that she's a Satisfied Street Rat who prefers playing pranks and robbing nobles to trying to revive the elves' dying culture, which she finds "backwards and boring." Her vitriol is so strong that she constantly badmouths elven culture whenever it's brought up in conversation, vocally prefers human "commoner" culture, and if the Player Character is an Elf then Sera will berate them whenever they act "too elfy" for her liking, and even dump them as a friend/lover if they claim they believe what they saw at an ancient elven temple. Played with for Dorian Pavus, a member of the Tevinter Emperium, a tyrannical slave-holding empire ruled by magisters who often freely abuse blood magic, human sacrifice, and demon-summoning for power. He's well aware of his country's problems (to the point that he defected from his decadent lifestyle on moral grounds) and will rant about their shortcomings when brought up (particularly the more stereotypical and fanatical groups). However, he'll also admit several times that his culture has its good points, and if he really thought it was beyond saving, he wouldn't miss it so much. The culmination of his Character Arc actually comes with him deciding to return home and be an Internal Reformist. |
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The Kids in the Hall: This sketch. Scott Thompson transfers this trope to Canada (where KITH is produced) saying that Canadians burn their flags all the time—to keep warm. He then proceeds to pull a tiny Canadian flag out of his pocket and blow his nose into it. | |
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Sakigake!! Otokojuku, an anime that frequently lampoons Japanese nationalism. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangster Sera is an elf who hates and distances herself from other Enslaved Elves. Part of it is due to internalized racism due to humans looking down on her for being an elf and elves looking down on her for being raised by humans. Part of it is that she's a Satisfied Street Rat who prefers playing pranks and robbing nobles to trying to revive the elves' dying culture, which she finds "backwards and boring." Her vitriol is so strong that she constantly badmouths elven culture whenever it's brought up in conversation, vocally prefers human "commoner" culture, and if the Player Character is an Elf then Sera will berate them whenever they act "too elfy" for her liking, and even dump them as a friend/lover if they claim they believe what they saw at an ancient elven temple. Played with for Dorian Pavus, a member of the Tevinter Emperium, a tyrannical slave-holding empire ruled by magisters who often freely abuse blood magic, human sacrifice, and demon-summoning for power. He's well aware of his country's problems (to the point that he defected from his decadent lifestyle on moral grounds) and will rant about their shortcomings when brought up (particularly the more stereotypical and fanatical groups). However, he'll also admit several times that his culture has its good points, and if he really thought it was beyond saving, he wouldn't miss it so much. The culmination of his Character Arc actually comes with him deciding to return home and be an Internal Reformist. |
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Sense8: Mahendra hates Indian food, almost gets assassinated due to his efforts to ban Hindu ceremonial rites, and is never seen wearing traditional Indian garments. One of the Hindus who had a hand in his assassination attempt says Mahendra wants India to be like America. | |
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The Americans: Philip and Elizabeth cozy up to a Soviet defector in the fifth season who almost constantly lambasts the USSR in favor of the US. This annoys not only them (privately) but also his wife, who didn't want to defect. | |
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Top Gear (UK) is actually very popular in the United States despite the presenters, Jeremy Clarkson especially, taking a very Type 2 stance to the Eagleland trope. The presenters never miss a chance to make fun of Americans or their cars, but they can be positive about them sometimes. From the Vietnam special, the punishment for having your motorbike break down was to have to use a bike painted in the colours of the US flag, playing "Born in the USA" at full volume. In one Cool Wall segment, Clarkson is joking around with the audience and gets to a rather attractive young lady with an American accent. Asking about her accent, we get this exchange: In one challenge, they have to rescue Hammond on a snowy mountaintop and Clarkson/May are given American pickup trucks. Traditionally, they have had very poor views of trucks, like in the challenge with driving cars to Louisiana and constantly mocking Hammond's Dodge truck. In this challenge, they fall in absolute love with their trucks with Clarkson remarking that they "were properly besotted" with the vehicles. Clarkson adored his Ford Velociraptor because of its insane horsepower and mentioning how even a base line vehicle is exceptionally cheap for its horsepower rating (mentioning that for the price of a Vauxhall diesel one can get a truck with a 350HP V8) and May loves his diesel Chevrolet Silverado because of its high torque at low RPMs and being a general workhorse. |
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"America (Fuck Yeah)", the theme song to Team America: World Police, lists several "American" things including porno, fake tits, McDonald's, and slavery. | |
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The Onion: 'Captain Actual America' Overweight, Hopelessly In Debt. | |
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In the Top 10 Spin-Off Smax, Smax has this in spades for his home realm — traveling there requires the use of arcane rituals, the locals play up rustic stereotypes to appease visiting tourists, and adventuring is a bureaucratic hassle that includes mandatory quotas and compliance with various fantasy tropes. Not to mention his twin sister having the hots for him... | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers. The author makes fun of everybody, his homeland included. | |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The English John Oliver says in this video that Prime Minister David Cameron, a posh Southern Tory, "embodies all the things I hate about England and I'm English." In an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, on the topic of American World power, Oliver said, "You get blamed for everything when you're number one" and most of the world's problems can be traced back to a British man drawing a line over a map. |
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Unsounded: Quigley has no love for any government, but he despises the one of his homeland he once worked for and which killed his wife the most; | |
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Dragon Age II: Hawke's Best Friend Varric Tethras is a surface dwarf whose family are exiled dwarven nobility. They were born underground and lost everything when they were banished to the surface, and miss the family glory that he never got since he was born on the surface. As a result, Varric is very vocally critical of Orzammar dwarven culture, finding them all to be rigid, haughty, stuck-up elitists who think they're better than everyone else because they "live in a hole in the ground" and that "their great-great-grandfather made a water clock or something." He often extols the virtues of surface human culture, finding it much more fun, casual, and laid-back than dwarven culture. | |
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The Man in the High Castle: In an Alternate History where Germany and Japan won World War II, Childan often disparages American culture in favor of German or Japanese culture. When a Japanese man asks him about rock & roll, Childan says he dislikes "negro music" and prefers Wagner. He also says that American idioms are stupid in comparison to the more elegant Japanese. When living in the neutral zone, the only place where American culture isn't dominated by Germany or Japan, Childan gripes about not being able to get any sushi. | |
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