you think american women have a "sense of self"?? Look, just because you may have found a good one.....let's be completely frank here. With of course some exceptions.........american women are OWNED by their insecurities. There's a multi BILLION dollar industry that is set up around women and their "LACK" of a sense of self. I would absolutely love to find a woman with the qualities that you're speaking of........and I think alot of the guys here would too. The point is that women from "Some" foreign countries are actually more powerful than the women here. When was the last time, besides your wife.........that you ran into a woman that could give a fuck about what people thought about her?? Jesus man........women don't even want to walk out of the house without 3 layers of war paint on their face. That's of course got alot to do with men and the kind of throwaway society that we men have built in the U.S........but that's another discussion. So Nay..........I whole heartedly disagree with your assessment of women in this country..............but I am sympathetic to them. There's a very good reason why I will NEVER raise children anywhere in the states.........either boys or girls. I won't capitalism raise my children.