The Yi people are one of China’s ethnic minority groups. There are about 7 million Yi living in Sichuan, other areas in southern China, and Vietnam. There are a handful of Yi students at my university. China is pretty homogeneous with Han Chinese making up 92% of the country. It seems like the Han Chinese students and teachers really like to talk about the ethnic minority groups and how different and interesting their clothes, music and lifestyle are.

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