Talk:sick man of Asia

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sick man of Asia

sick man of East Asia

sick man from (deprecated template usage) sick man of Europe + of + NP. Not a set phrase (See synonymous sick man of East Asia). DCDuring TALK 16:19, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

...and see also google news archive:"sick man of africa", with references to Chad, Zaire, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Omar al Bashir, and Robert Mugabe, and that's just among the first ten hits. Not a set phrase at all. Delete.​—msh210℠ 16:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps we should have an entry for (deprecated template usage) sick man? Equinox ◑ 15:34, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Possibly. But we'd be ahead of our fellow lemmings. By the misnomer principle, in the metaphorical applications to countries (organizations?) this might meet WT:CFI. And it seems to have been most memorably use in an 1853 conversation between Czar Nicholas and the British ambassador about the Ottoman Empirey (apparently not "sick man of Europe"). The quote from Atlantic suggests that it may be worth having: each of these "except for" countries is the industrial sick man of its region. It seems to be a synonym of weak sister. Hmmm, older and broader than I thought. DCDuring TALK 16:27, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

After reading sick man I intuitively knew that these must be referring to the Qing Empire. No, I'm kidding. Keep. (Although adding East doesn't do much for me). DAVilla 10:58, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

kept, no clear consensus for deletion. -- Prince Kassad 08:47, 30 March 2011 (UTC)