TIL about Cultural Cringe, where people view their own culture as inferior to others

It's like a little sibling. I'll shit talk my own culture all day, but you make fun of it, then fuck you from here to next Wednesday.

I'm an American living abroad for a decade and a half and when I hear my own accent at tourist spots I cringe hard. I guess this is an example of cultural cringe?

As a person raised deep in the Mormon culture in our lovely Deseret, I get it. Being bisexual and independently minded made it impossible to stay in the culture, but damnit, it is still part of who I am.

So many complex emotions that you need to use German to try to describe them.

I know too many Indians seriously affected by this.

I wish there was a word for the utter fascination and adoration of the absurdity and eccentricities of your own culture. I would use it a lot.

Yeah, I get that. Historically, white men have done a lot of things to be ashamed of.