[Reeses]

Though Portuguese Catholic missionaries came to Vietnam in the early 1500s, it was French Jesuits in the following century who had the first significant success in winning converts and establishing a Church presence.

Coincidentally, today Vietnam, Laos, and Eastern Thailand are home to many curvy light skinned Asian women. An extreme example:

Vietnamese Elly Tran Ha

[Cronos]

those two events are not inter-related. The light skinned South-East asians have been there for centuries -- the Tai-Kadai (Thai and Laotian) and Mon-Khmer (Vietnamese and Cambodian) peoples are naturally lighter than the Austronesian peoples.

Though not as light skinned as Japanese