Generalities don't carry much/any weigh with me. Granted, white men--American Christian while men--seem to have it made ... seem being the operative word. If you're a middle or lower class American Christian white man, then you might well not be and may never be worth much.

What you need to be is upper class--and the more upper upper class you are, the less it matters what else you are. Sadly, today's world judges us by what we have and who we can buy. Who we are, specifically or in the abstract, matters less almost hourly.

I'm not saying that any one race/religion/etc ought to be judged above another ... only that the issue itself is vanishing because it is being overtaken by a person's economic worth. Back to dowries ...