An attempt to describe the Chinese people can be a very complicated and challenging task.
Chinese people are very diverse in their country of origins.
Although many of these minorities live in China, they do not consider themselves as Chinese. The minority population is spread in the western part of China, the border regions around India, Afghanistan, Russia, Central Asia, and Vietnam. The three largest minority groups including the Tibetans, the Uighurs who live in Xinjiang province in northwestern China and the Mongolians who live on the northern grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Within the Han ethnic group, there are many subtleties in their beliefs and practices that make it difficult to categorize this group as one homogenous group. For the general public, the Chinese are assumed to behave like other Chinese and speak mutually understandable language.