This is probably to aid exchanges in academic work between both sides of the Tasman Sea as opposed to any sort of sense of cultural inferiority.
Here, one feels, there is an almost total confusion between economic, cultural and moral 'inferiority'.
The tributary system showed cultural inferiority on part of the tributary state, and a show of reverence for the recipient of the tribute.
With their cultural inferiority, we, the proud members of the Protestant Christian White Race, could never have raped and conquered our way across the continent.
In a nation throbbing with a sense of cultural inferiority and overrun by English actors, he represented a new beginning.
Naichi Japanese in Okinawa enjoyed privileged access to jobs and business opportunities, while Okinawans-by-birth suffered discrimination based on a perception of ethnic and cultural inferiority.
To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.
Laissez-faire racism is based on the idea that black people have a cultural inferiority to other races, i.e. African Americans' are responsible themselves for the gap between whites and blacks in America.
Thus were pilferage and grand theft added to the oldest of indictments: America's cultural inferiority.
We had such a sense of cultural inferiority.