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Last week I got an email from my foreigner friends asking me about “Dowry” as he has an idea to get married with his Thai girlfriend and this is not my first time that foreigners friends question me about Thai’s wedding culture especially “ Dowry” “ Why do Thai parents needs Dowry?” “ Don’t you think it’s like selling daughter?” “ Why man have to pay, in my country girls have to pay?” “ How much we should pay for the dowry?” “ It’s like a legally buy a wife?” “ Do I need to pay tax on “Dowry”? “ Can you give me a sample basic amount of dowry?” Wait a minute! Wait a minute! My dear friends. Thais parents didn’t ask for dowry as a commercial! There is no surplus or deficit, no tax, no VAT 7%! Your girlfriend is not product so dowry is not a price tag on your girlfriend’s head! First of all, you need to understand Thai culture ok? If you love her but you don’t try to understand the culture and you are not hap