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Buddhists
Orange/Blue/Grey Myanmar Outline
The Buddhists in Myanmar are depicted just as the Muslims were in the Egyptian conflict. Though many of the same descriptors were used to describe similar events, the Buddhists in Myanmar seem to be portrayed in a worse light than the Muslims in Egypt. This is mainly caused by the shock of these descriptors being combined with otherwise thought of as "peaceful" Buddhists.
Muslims
Yellow/Orange/Grey Egypt Image & green/orange/dark green Myanmar outline
Muslims play the roles of both the victims ans the perpetrators in these two cases. As the instigators in the Egypt conflict, they are described as brutal, discriminatory militants. Descriptors such as these provide clear bias, swaying the reader towards a certain negative attitude.
As for the articles about Myanmar, Muslims are describes as poor victims like the Christians were however, some of the wording seemed to put a slight part of blame on the Muslim villagers.
Christians
Blue/Purple/ Grey Egypt Image
As the victims in the Egypt conflict, Christians are described are being completely victimized. The word choice portrays that they had done nothing to deserve what happened. It made the Egyptian Christians to seem like saints who were brutally attacked and killed.
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