Sit-Down-Look

Sit-Down-Look
A Nigerian expression meaning to passively observe – now used to describe the developing world’s quiescent role in the global economic collapse.

In a recent editorial for the Nigerian paper This Day, Kennedy Ifeh suggested that the third world had become an impotent bystander to the global financial crisis:

Developed and emerging economies in Europe, America and Asia seem to have all abandoned the globalization relic and the promises of hope for mankind to adopt protectionist policies. World economy has suddenly turned Keynesian.
Governments are injecting stimulus bailouts and enforcing financial regulations. Only recently, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, unfolded plans that suggests [the] government’s move to nationalize banks. In all of these, countries of the third world are left in the dark and have helplessly assumed the status of the popular Nigeria phrase “sit-down-look.” …
In the face of obvious realities, the third world should look inwards and harness the powers from within towards a strong economic alliance and convergence of common interest rather than to hope for aids from theG20.


Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles. 2014.

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