| Similar attitudes can be found among Sinicized highlanders, such as the Hmong. |
| He wrote sympathetically about highlanders under the cosh from rapacious landlords. |
| The quantity of alcohol consumed by southern highlanders was, by all accounts, stunning. |
| Conversely, the highlanders had never before seen people who lived beyond their mountain valleys and plains. |
| For many of these highlanders raising dairy cows is considered the best way to make a living, better than growing beans or other crops. |
| The highlanders, with their visible poverty and audible oddity of speech, met with a mixed reception and often sent home unfavourable reports. |