Is the system of Dowry and Dowry harassments are common in your country ?

This isn't really a practice here in the U.S. People here marry who they themselves choose out of love and usualy do not involve the family in the choosing (though they may ask advice ocaisionaly) I'm not even sure if a dowry is legal here. There are parents who will try to nudge their offspring towards a particular person, or out right nag them in some cases. But most often it is a matter between the two who are getting married and a dowry here would be considered more of a "bribe" than anything traditional. We do have a tradition where the paretns of the bride pay for the wedding, but it is only a loose tradition and not often practiced. Many couples here have already lived together for a while before they are married and often pay for their own weddings. Some, just stay living together and never get married too.

Like the other myloters have said. Dowery is not allowed here. It does not go on here and I do not think it ever has. in the old days a man had to ask the fathers premission to marry. that is the father of the bride. but that couston has long fated away. today people marry for love in the U.S.

Here in the Philippines, we never practiced such dowry offering in marriage. We just marry the one we truly loved, except for unlawful or immoral issues, parents always accepted and agree to the marriage of their children. Our customs and traditions in the Philippines only agree to the "pamanhikan" as part of the process, pamamanhikan means--asking of the woman's hand (by her boyfriend) from her parents and announcing the plan of their marriage.