I noticed this about a lot of women I met from South and Central America, the lack of posturing for dominance, or the low-key personal insults that American women like to pretend they're not making. When I was talking to these women the face I got was the face they had. They didn't waste time trying to engage in oneupmanship with me, and for the most part I could take the things they said to me at face value. I didn't have to spend energy trying to guess what they really meant.