In spite of young Kano's academic superiority he was relegated to a subordinate position, because of his physical inferiority.
It creates an identity crisis and inferiority complexes vis-a-vis the colonizer.
Comparisons with other cultures need no longer engender feelings of inferiority and inadequacy.
Since then, the girl had believed she was not photogenic and gradually developed an inferiority complex.
As has been suggested, this discourse seems to have arisen out of a sense of weakness or inferiority on the part of the English.
He also lamented the existence of attitudes asserting inferiority toward anything from the West within the art world.
At the helm for 11 games, he lost 10, drew one and was responsible for an infestation of inferiority in the dressing room.
Nicholas is doing better, but suffers from an inferiority complex that is magnified when separated from Patrick.
It is an understanding that carried New Zealand to a win when numerical inferiority and English courage suggested it should have been a loss.
In a condition of inferiority and objectification, submission is usually essential for survival.
Perhaps their apprehension comes from a lingering inferiority complex which has not yet matured beyond its second-class status.
Jackie sometimes claims he had an inferiority complex, a cultural cringe, another legacy of dyslexia and his Scottish upbringing.
Europe suffers from a collective inferiority complex, seeming to be helpless against the tides of the new century.
Even his fondest memories are tinged by the infamous inferiority complex that continues to drive him.
Studies also show that such children suffer from a marked inferiority complex.
As a nation, the Danes are said to be shy and suffer from an inferiority complex.
The latest result betrays a real inferiority complex within the Irish mindset.
She has a severe inferiority complex and believes herself to be completely worthless.
He soon realizes that he is only a toy, a plaything for his enemy, kept alive as a showcase of human inferiority.
After centuries of carping prompted by an understandable inferiority complex, Lancastrians are coming to accept that Yorkshire knows best.
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Only rarely do legitimate children express such feelings of inferiority, and these exceptions are instructive.
It is a product of the congenital inferiority complex of the Scots that they cannot believe in their own creations.
Is it possible to have both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex?
When the relationship between people and nature is discussed today, it is always humanity that bears the mark of moral inferiority.
Falling at the feet of Jesus in front of a crowd is a telling gesture signifying social inferiority.
One of the central tenets of this ideology is the inherent inferiority and weakness of women.
But for the first time, many Americans were sophisticated enough to have developed a cultural inferiority complex.
I believe that the unspoken collective view in the compartment was that there was an inferiority complex at play here.
But he attributes any meekness to feelings of inferiority rather than superiority.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
Can we overcome the imposed inferiority complex about white people by making this nation an economic power and a military power?
This tribal inferiority complex is what helped make the Rocky movies a box-office bonanza.
Fear, inferiority, unwontedness, and uncertain futures was the state in which the Assyrians lived constantly.
Any inferiority complex is a two-way street, and outsiders have contributed to the negative stereotype of Dundee as much as the locals.
There is probably profound fear or inferiority in her, which could be why she hides herself behind those oversized glasses.
She hurried out into the street, happy to be alone in the crowd and away from Leo who was clearly dealing with an inferiority complex.
Nevertheless the imperfection inherent in its inferiority can be overcome as it returns towards its cause.
However, it wasn't just physical inferiority that marked us out as different to the current generation of A-level students.
Nurses assumed this position of unquestioning inferiority both in their actions and their beliefs.
However, from this position of avowed inferiority, could I possibly make two tiny observations?
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But, then again, inferiority depends on where your benchmarks are and with whom you are comparing.
Aspiration for honour and prosperity came to be regarded as a sort of undesirable worldly weaknesses and inferiority of mind.
Despite their inferiority, York could feel aggrieved about Percy Park's third try which followed a blatantly forward pass.
And it's always triggered by a feeling of inferiority and it starts with a sense of failure.
The language of racial inferiority and exclusion was used as unselfconsciously in this debate as it was on the franchise question.
He always had a bit of an inferiority complex because he's smaller, but he was very broad and stocky.
We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
Remember the primary drive for the ego from the Adlerian perspective was to overcome a fundamental sense of inferiority derived from childhood experiences.
We all understood that he was venting his inferiority complex on his wife.
As we shall see, it is not easy to answer this simple question, especially since some passages underline his importance, while others stress his inferiority to Jesus.
I suppose it is inferiority complex yet some of the best books in English are translations.
Such a move will acknowledge its rising power and mollify its inferiority complex.
A sense of inferiority, whether justified or not, leads to boastfulness.
Scotland's major task in the coming decades will be to outgrow the stultifying mentality of negativism and inferiority that has dogged the nation since the second world war.
The Tempest is a text which in its canonicity culturally institutionalizes a false history of Africans and emburdens them with a false sense of cultural inferiority.
Still, the sense of inferiority drummed into me from my contact with the internet may well lead me to strive to become a more fully rounded individual.
In the bush, labouring as a mark of social inferiority disappeared.
They gaze in wonder at our modesty and chuckle at our inferiority complex.
This was a mark not of a cultural inferiority complex, but of confidence.
What's more, the Continent is suffering from an inferiority complex.
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But then, I also do have an inferiority complex in certain things.
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on this score is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
The inverted commas indicate the workings of an inferiority complex.
Traditionally, it was accepted that wives and children were subordinate and subservient to the husband father, either because of biblical prescription or natural inferiority.
It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them.
Image and virtual reality are everything these days, explaining why the city, burdened with an inferiority complex, forever sees itself as a cultural desert.
But their puissance cannot conceal their incurable inferiority.
Advocates of disability rights emphasize difference in physical or psychological functioning, rather than inferiority.
The home side showed no inferiority complex and indeed were the better side in the scoreless first-half.
Though the ground work for apartheid began earlier, the report provided support for this central idea of black inferiority.
There is no way we should go into this match against them with an inferiority complex.
His inferiority complex means he spends all his time imagining how he wouldn't have lived up to Robinsons from previous generations.
I've spent all this time with people who needlessly worried about being second-class citizens and having an inferiority complex,'' he says.
Bates's behaviour stems from being a small man with a massive inferiority complex who simply wants to be noticed.
The Aussies were upset at my contention that they're so much better at sport than us because of an inferiority complex.
Using the dialect conveys neither social nor educational inferiority and is done with pride.
No race has suffered so much from an inferiority complex as has the German.
An inferiority complex and megalomania are behind Erdogan's policy and it has forced him to take risky steps.
The Scottish cavalry withdrew as well, due to its inferiority to the English heavy horse.
The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority.
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I guess many of us were burdened by an inferiority complex because we were from the eastside.
Hardy never felt at home in London, because he was acutely conscious of class divisions and his social inferiority.
Mussolini refused to allow Italy to return again to this inferiority complex, initially rejecting Nordicism.
This is the psychological mechanism of lucrimax, poeticizing the desert and visually embodying the inferiority complex of the former exiles and migrants.
It gives the segregator and intolerant a false sense of inferiority.
Deep-rooted feelings of inferiority, overwhelming sense of failure, and yearning for life meaning are daily components of many African Americans in the inner dries.
It was according to this idiom of superiority and inferiority of lineages derived from birth order that legal claims to superior rank were couched.
In spite of that, the Napoleon Complex is named after him to describe men who have an inferiority complex and become aggressive due to short stature.
German planning was determined by numerical inferiority, the speed of mobilisation and concentration and the effect of the vast increase of the power of modern weapons.
The Crimean War also led to the eventual realisation by the Russian government of its technological inferiority, in military practices as well as weapons.
African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority.
The athletic facilities are an eyesore and the athletic department a growing embarrassment to a student body that already suffers from an inferiority complex.
SoCal has an inferiority complex because of jungle fever across America.
They think that our current state is the result of some sort of physiological fatefulness that is undefinable but that is identified as racial inferiority.

It will mean the penalization of real worth and the endowment of inferiority and incompetence.
Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, pedo, and Marsus, and admits his inferiority only to the first.
Initial paranoia, with megalomaniacal symptoms, on the basis of hereditary inferiority, with vicarious genius.
But, in an effort to compensate for a deep-set inferiority complex, they react with vanity and narcissism.
And this was an inferiority Walpole loved to cherish and was pleased to think over.
He was the symbol of a race abruptly exalted from inferiority to dominance.
The inferiority might be the result of feebleness and of want of activity of mind.
And that lurking vanity of the inferior to lessen his own inferiority did the rest.
Who knows that he was not dimly aware of his own inferiority, and thus feared to venture?
But I allow this inferiority only with respect to the paintings of Turner, not to his drawings.
But mainly he was a shy person who nursed his inferiority complex in secret.
The inferiority complex which is the race's most persistent heritage from the past was written all over it.
A brave facade of self-sufficiency covers up a vast hinterland of inferiority complex fully supported by real inferiority.
For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with regard to his own rational capacities?
Abrogation of every law establishing the civil inferiority of women and natural or adulterine children.
Was Talmage placed in the tabernacle because he was of real inferiority to other preachers.
The supposed grounds for disallowance are in reality only marks of inferiority.
It was also a compensation for a feeling of inferiority, in Adler's sense.
He no longer dares to tease her by assuming an abysmal inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own.
He would prize the jewel, and overlook the inferiority of the casket.
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Is there any such natural and irremovable inferiority in human beings?
She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing.
How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?
To the figure of the noble swordsman he brings a wry impishness, a stunning self-assurance that nettles his foes and magnifies their inferiority.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Best had decidedly the inferiority as an interlocutor with Mrs.
They would endeavor to supply the inferiority of population and resources by a more regular and effective system of defense, by disciplined troops, and by fortifications.
He concludes that Finnish culture is not unique and that this claim to uniqueness springs from a sense of national inferiority when set against the rest of Europe.

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