As Smith points out, 'ethnic ties and national loyalties have become more deep rooted than ever'.

Two (or possibly three) other people groups have ethnic and linguistic ties with the region:

Those countries at least have cultural, religious, and ethnic ties to Asia then Australia, which is very European in every way.

Many of the victims appear to have been targeted by Government troops merely because of their ethnic ties to the insurgent forces.

There is an assortment of reasons concerning ethnic ties, history and politics.

The two peoples have close ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic ties.

They both maintain close ethnic, social and economic ties to Russia.

Despite their ethnic tie, there is a vast cultural disparity.

Poverty gives easterners more in common, he felt, than ethnic ties to westerners.

And India, with ethnic ties to Mauritius, lobbied for it.