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[quote=Anonymous]Few seem to be answering your actual question. Yes, there is a dowry custom in China, but it's phasing out. Either the parents of the groom or the groom will be the ones providing it. It's also a reason there are many unmarried men in China -- a combination of too many men due to the past 1-child policy (selective abortion), and how men feel they need to have a bunch of assets as the dowry before they are eligible bachelors.

But.. you're in America, and she's in America, and she's lived here long enough to know that dowries are generally not done here. Even in China, I haven't heard of this wife bank account thing. She's hanging around with the wrong type of people.. recent immigrants perhaps?

My parents are mixed culture -- mother grew up in another Asian country, where the bride's parents typically pay a dowry. She moved to the US in her 20's. They still paid a dowry but in a different way -- the dowry was gold jewelry to be worn by my mother. So it was given to my father (I guess to his parents actually) as is custom, who then turned around and gave it to her.

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