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**VowJoyday** · 07-03-2012, 06:40 AM

You are right. I saw in another thread that Thai people use the wordsThai and Buddhist almost interchangeably. Maybe it is the same for Burmese and Rohingyas. If so, local people might not have clear distinction between their religious and ethnic identities.

I think you might find in Burma the conflict is understood as being between the Rohingyas and the Rakhines. Because few foreigners know anything about these two ethnic groups the foreign media has to find another way of identifying the differences, religion is the obvious one and so a religious conflict is born.

07-03-2012, 06:40 AM	#16
VowJoyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	You are right. I saw in another thread that Thai people use the wordsThai and Buddhist almost interchangeably. Maybe it is the same for Burmese and Rohingyas. If so, local people might not have clear distinction between their religious and ethnic identities. I think you might find in Burma the conflict is understood as being between the Rohingyas and the Rakhines. Because few foreigners know anything about these two ethnic groups the foreign media has to find another way of identifying the differences, religion is the obvious one and so a religious conflict is born.
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