Most of these ethnic people living in Bangladesh have some common characteristic. They have there own lifestyles.
They build their houses on bmboo or wooden platforms called 'machang'. Rice is their staple food. They eat vegetables, maize and fish, poultry and meat. Their kitchen utensils are bamboo, wooden and earthen pots which they make themselves. Man wear lungis and women wear thamis or sarongs and angis. Women weave their own clothes.