I never thought they liked us. Especially considering how unpleasant some farangs are. But they are live and let live kind of ppl. And they are polite enough.
Alternatively, go to east or central Europe. People are brash, rude and total hard asses. They don't pretend to be happy. But I am Canadian and we are nice and we pretend to be happy. I think a lot of Canadians are actually happy to a point. Fake it to make it.
I remember walking into a bank in Poland. And the teller is just looked down, hardly recognized that I was there. And just barked at me when we had to communicate. They don't hide anything. And this happened in Germany, Holland, Romania, everywhere. A Polish guy asked for directions to me. I politely responded in English. His response was "Polski Polski, blah blah!" He swore at me in Polish and threw up his hands like I was an idiot. I learned quite well how to be a European. A week into it and I started acting like them. Anyone who asked me anything, I shooed out of the way with my arms.
I felt like such an idiot for being a polite Canadian in Europe. But then we went to Thailand right after, and I had to reverse back to being more Canadian. Because the ppl are just far more polite and decent