Vietnamese Impressions

The Vietnamese that i've met thus far seem to be very different from the Thais. For one thing, they don't smile nearly as much as the Thai people- they always seem to be glaring at you - even when they're serving you they're giving you the impression that they don't love you and they don't really care whether you're taken in by them or not.
Maybe it's because they have stronger jawlines or are better dressed (many of the woman are wearing traditional dress and the men seem to wear immaculately tailored trousers, square toed shoes and dress shirts - unlike the Thai equivalent of rubber sandles, shorts and t-shirts [which is what I seem to be wearing more often than not)] but they just leave a far less personable impression on me. They are very beautiful people but only because they are so icy cold with their arrogant demeanour.
Maybe that's what happens when you kick out your colonial power and top it off by humiliating a superpower ... They know they're capable of so much but they're still stifled by such poverty - very interesting place.