Quote: (06-04-2013 11:54 AM)Exactaking Wrote:
If he paid $3m for her, why does he have to dress up in that outfit and hold his hands like he's some sort of eastern spiritual guru or some shit? Western civiilzation may reaping what it sowed, but I hate it when western men abandon adopt the culture of others, its a shit test, and he failed.
No man that's how they dress for weddings over there, palms together is how they do formal greetings, or pose for wedding pictures in this case. The real shit test he failed was the bride price/dowry - I've got two white uncles and they didn't pay jack shit to my grandma.
@podznyshev - It's true that its actually a bride price but everyone over there calls it a dowry.
http://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand/thai-dowry.php
http://www.livingthai.org/how-much-shoul...dowry.html
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These days however the dowry is more common as a keepsake of the past and that typically the dowry paid is more often than not returned to the groom and the grooms family as a sign of good faith between the families. The dowry is typically displayed as gold bullion, jewelry and cash at the time of the wedding and returned once all the festivities are over.
40,000 forty thousand baht for a typical farm girl
= $1,300