Depends on which viets really. Tooting carmen was quite right about viets fitting into thais and cambodians. Being an austronesian people, they're actually closest to indonesians, filipinos and malays and further from Japan than the other 3. I've heard that many of the viet refugees are actually ethnic chinese or at least have partial ancestry to an ancestor further north. Don't follow the entertainment industry, they're not exactly representative. Most viets would kill to look more east asian.
However, in rural Vietnam (where most ethnic kinh are pure), these are typical native viets:
Practically the same as their austronesian brothers, the filipinos.
Compared to chinese:
Myanmar people are an outlier and quite unique. The ethnic majority, bamar, actually have a very high south asian genetic contribution which is common among transhimalayans albeit their's is a little higher. Meanwhile in the Karen, Chin and Kachin State, they're closer to northeast indians, nepalese mongols, yunnanese ethnic minorities and their appearance looks more similar to japanese/east asians.
@zhaoyun From my experience, not too much. There are actually many thais that look quite east asian, and many viets that look filipino.
Historically, thais are a kra-dai people and trace their origins from what is now southern China. They also have relatives in Shan state in Myanmar and Assam in India among others. For example, from Shan state (the ancestral bloodline of the thais/laotians look like them)
Meanwhile if we go by language families, viets have an austro- tongue, meaning their ancestors were close to malays and filipinos. This is a native kinh.
This is a native kinh family
These are not ethnic kinh. They're ethnic hmong from Sapa who are heavily disadvantaged compared to ethnic kinh, suffering malnutrition, mistreatment and often kidnappings by local kinh viets. Ethnic kinh pretend and misrepresent minorities from Sapa as their own.
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