Were they an ethnically distinct society of newcomers, or one with diverse groups sharing a handicraft style?

Both schemes treat the Shan people who live in the same or contiguous areas as ethnically distinct.

Although the two groups share religion and culture, they are ethnically distinct.

They have only marginal mutual intelligibility, and are ethnically distinct.

Newcomers, especially those who form linguistic or ethnically distinct groups, always have a hard time in Australia at first.

Each party functionary represented a local constituency, and most of the constituencies were ethnically distinct.

Tibetans are ethnically distinct from Han Chinese and speak an entirely different language.

However, they are often counted as separate languages because their speakers are ethnically distinct.

These early communities adopted much of the local culture, and some disappeared entirely while others formed ethnically distinct communities.