: I wouldn't get too political, racial and "us versus them" in this article. Mongols are diverse people. Buryats, Khalkha, etc. are considered Mongols. It is not really about core distinct Mongols. Uyghurs, Merkits, Tatars were factually in Mongolia and got integrated by Genghis Khan and they all became Mongolians because they were essentially same people but were fighting each other. Mongols, Kazakhs, Uyghurs, and others are not really different, they are all intermixed with each other. There are no "Mongolic people" because you can't tell when Mongols begin and when Uyghurs start for instance if you travel from Mongolia to Xinjiang. These are cultural terms. This is not same thing as "Germanics" and "Slavs." It is not racial. It is cultural terms. There are a lot of various people in Mongolia right now in the west. This is cultural article. The last thing we want is a racial topic in this article. Take it easy.