I knew a guy who married a woman he met overseas. Not a passport bro by any means, just a guy who met a women in the course of his job. (She was a lawyer in her own country.) They fell in love despite a severe language barrier, got married, and moved to the US. After a couple of years, they divorced. His explanation: "We got along great until her English got good enough that she understood what I was saying." I think there's a lesson in that for a lot of guys. All those appealing traditional, male-friendly, submissive traits don't exist in a vacuum. They function in a complex culture that marriage to an American across the ocean will separate her from. Moreover, you represent a fantasy creature to her just as much as she represents one to you. You're a magic ticket out of a world of limitations and often poverty. Once that airplane touches down in the USA, the context changes completely. In the absence of palm trees, dominant dynamic ceases to be between mutual fantasies, and the two people you actually are have to get along. I wonder if such relationships have any better chance at long term success that relationships between randomly selected men and women would have.