However, in the minds of the more than 5 million Mongols, there is no distinction between an "inner" and "outer" Mongolian. Mongolians traditionally conceptualize the southern desert as their front and the northern desert as their back, and just as in the human body, front and back are indivisible.
原來，在尚有五百萬蒙古人的思維中，是不分什麼內蒙人或外蒙人的，傳統上他們以大漠之南為腹，大漠之北為背，正如同一個人的身體，腹背無法分離。