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Buddhism is a faith that was founded by Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha more
than 2,500 years ago in India. It has about 470 million followers. Buddhism is also
considered as one of the major world religions. Its practice has historically been most
prominent in East and Southeast Asia, but its influence is growing in the West. O the
other hand, Chauvinism means strong and unreasonable belief that your own country, sex,
or group is the best or most important, often at the expense of others.
So we can clearly say that Buddhist Chauvinism is a happening wherein Buddhist has a
sense of racial and religious superiority among majority. And now, Buddhist Chauvinism is rising
in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
3.2
The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, composed no sutta to religious hatred or racial
animus. And yet Buddhist chauvinism now threatens the democratic process in both Myanmar
(Burma) and Sri Lanka. Some of the same Buddhist monks who braved Myanmar’s military junta
in the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 today encourage violence against members of the country’s
Muslim Rohingya minority. In Sri Lanka, the ethnic chauvinism of the Buddhist Sinhalese, stirred
by a former president determined to reclaim power.
3.3
One example wherein Buddhist chauvinism can be somewhat similar to, is the male
chauvinism. It is the belief that men are superior to women. For instance, man who is
extremely loyal and respectful towards men, while simultaneously not treating women as well.
Women were believed to be deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit. Before the
Industrial Revolution, the male endurance value and physical strength translated directly to
political power. Men fought in wars, hunted beasts, erected buildings, and plowed fields
because they possessed the physical stamina to do so at a far greater degree than females. But
today, women and men are experiencing the same opportunities whatever field they belong to,
and receiving the same respect.

3.4
Buddhist Chauvinism in Burma’s Theravada culture, which encourages a sense of racial
and religious superiority among majority Burman Buddhists at the expense of ethnic and
religious minorities. It brought into a violence directed against Rohingya Muslims. The anti-
Rohingya violence in June, some of it committed by Buddhist mobs and some by Buddhist-
dominated security forces, led to score s of deaths, the burning of settlements and a refugee
exodus of 90,000 people into neighboring Bangladesh. According to the United Nations, the
Rohingyas, who number about 800,000, are one of the world’s most persecuted minorities —
subject to forced labor, extortion, police harassment, movement restrictions, land confiscation,
a de facto "one child" policy, and limited access to jobs, education, and healthcare. This
mindset tends to view minorities as threats to "the land, the race, and the religion." 
To deflect that challenge, the regime has played the Burman "race card," largely through
propaganda stressing that Buddhism is the religion of "true Burmese," and that the health and
purity of a uniquely Burman form of Buddhism are at risk from "outside" contamination.
Although this strategy wasn’t successful enough to fend off assaults on the military’s legitimacy,
it was effective at feeding Buddhist chauvinism and insecurity. 

3.5
Chauvinism is something that happens even up to this generation. It can be seen in
different forms but still, it has the same idea. The Buddhist Chauvinism can be applied to what
is happening today with the belief that the rich is superior to the poor. Rich people really do
think they're better than everybody else. Also a new study found says that people who born
into higher social classes are more overconfident and have "an exaggerated belief" that they
will perform better than others, more so than those in lower classes. But, this belief should not
hinder us from achieving our dreams and to become the best version of ourselves. Our social
class should not define us because we can be something greater than what other people
believes us to be.

3.6
Based on what I have understood, I would be against the idea of “Buddhist Chauvinism.”
It is because I firmly believes that nothing is superior or more powerful to anything whether it
may be a person, a country, or even religion. No religion can save a person whether it is
Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, or even Christianity, there have always been millions who
mistakenly thought that obedience to their religion would earn them eternal life. Also, I
believes that each of us needed to be respected the way we deserve. Others beliefs and
traditions should be given respect the way we wanted ours to be respected. As what a verse
goes, “Be humble and never think you are better. For dust you are; and unto dust you shall
return.”