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.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 295:
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".
