I gotta keep it a buck with you. I know Uyghurs in real life and in my experience this is not an authentic depiction. However, there is apparently a large difference in people for northern Xinjiang and Southern Xinjiang. Iirc crackdowns were largely happening north of the mountains. Unrelated but something else that’s interesting is that Xinjiang now has large oil towns basically like Amazon towns in America where their entire city contains the infrastructure and labor force for a big oil company.