I hadn't heard the term "cultural cringe" until I went to live in Australia. Holiday encounters had been so full of sunshine, art, water and music that it hadn't occurred to me to doubt the cultural confidence and energy of the nation that gave us Patrick White and Peter Carey, Joan Sutherland, Jane Campion, Baz Lurhmann and Robert Hughes. But once I did hear it, it was everywhere. Google it now and you'll find not t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:02AM on March 23, 2014