To: marshmallow
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:
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Vietnamese Elly Tran Ha
12 posted on
12/05/2016 6:39:53 PM PST by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: Reeses
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
18 posted on
12/07/2016 5:28:26 AM PST by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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