Submitted by worldtravelstephanie t3_107ro84 in IAmA
latecomer11 t1_j3psiob wrote
Kazakhs' main animals are horse and sheep, why do you call them goat herders?
worldtravelstephanie OP t1_j3sa35x wrote
Kazakh is a whole ethnic group of peoples, like ‘Mongolians’ or ‘Sami’ people. Some or nomadic, some are not. Some live in Kazakhstan, some in Russian or Mongolia, some in China, etc. Some have never herded at all and live in a city. Every person in an ethnic group does not do the same thing, or herd the same animals. I saw some that owned a lot of camels though I never stayed or interacted with those Kazakhs. I call them goat herders because the Kazakh group I stayed with had a few horses, but mostly yaks and goats.
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