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We don’t treasure our historical artifacts, because they remind us of our rich civilizations’ supposed inferiority.
In the long term, images of women actually killing and capturing ISIS fighters amount to the first nail in the coffin of the group’s ideology, which is founded on the false premise of feminine inferiority.
For example, non-Muslims usually see veiling as a sign of the debasement and inferiority of Muslim women.
Many European inferiority complexes toward America, which the advent of the euro were supposed to banish forever, could easily reappear.
Thus, the implicit perception of Western superiority and Eastern inferiority is untenable in the long run.
In order to compensate for its growing inferiority complex, Russia has cobbled together the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which, by its title and constitutional principles, is a parody of NATO.
Instead, it seems more like a child’s playground: a strange mixture of inferiority and superiority complexes.
While Americans claim that NMD is not directed against anyone, that all the US wants is to protect its citizens against states like Iraq or North Korea, almost everyone else thinks differently: Russians fear that America wants to cement its military superiority (and Russia's inferiority) forever; the Chinese are concerned that NMD signals American readiness to help Taiwan remain independent;Europeans worry that America's plans invite tensions with Russia and may separate the US from Europe.
What Octavio Paz once called Mexico's "labyrinth of solitude" toward the world beyond its borders was built on a sense of inferiority and a propensity for passivity.
But since its collapse, a gnawing feeling of inferiority has crept into Russian society.
Whereas one can feel fear without losing one’s dignity, shame arises from feelings of inferiority.
The inferiority complex of Russia's derzhavniki (advocates of a powerful, effective state) reflects only weakness, not strength.
This is not to say that Europe does not have a serious unemployment problem; but there is no obvious inferiority in Europe: all advanced economies must boost job creation.
At the same time, the ancient sense of cultural superiority that runs in Chinese veins makes feelings of inferiority hard to bear.
Second, it has become abundantly clear that India’s military inferiority to China reflects a widening economic gap.
The fact that Italy’s public debt has a lower credit rating than private debt is a reflection not of public debt’s intrinsic inferiority but of a political choice by European leaders.
For his part, Macron’s hyperactive diplomacy exposes a post-imperial inferiority complex, the symptoms of which – whether Brexit or Putinism – are impeding Europe’s normalization, and hampering the EU’s mobilization to counterbalance China and the United States.
She dared not let him see her consciousness of her own inferiority.
The idea of a duty to be performed, and of making himself ridiculous, or rather being left with a sense of inferiority if he did not succeed in performing it, at once took all the pleasure from his heart.
In spite of these sober qualities, and thanks to his pride, it conveyed no sense of inferiority; one felt merely that he still regarded too many things as important.
Less than a month later, Julien was strolling pensively in the garden of the Hotel de La Mole; but his features no longer showed the harshness, as of a surly philosopher, which the constant sense of his own inferiority impressed on them.
'How ought I to dispose of it?' he continued, with more calm: the effect produced by his words had rid him of all sense of inferiority.
Frances stopped short in her walk, and turned on him a look of so much purity and feeling, that, heart-stricken, Dunwoodie would have knelt at her feet for pardon; but motioning him for silence, she once more spoke:-"Hear me, Major Dunwoodie, for the last time: it is a bitter knowledge when we first discover our own inferiority; but it is a truth that I have lately learned.
"Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
CHAPTER 22Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on their side, Elinor principally attributed that preference of herself which soon became evident in the manners of both, but especially of Lucy, who missed no opportunity of engaging her in conversation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments.
He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?--to
The relative inferiority which it proved was of a nature to wound a haughty spirit.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
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