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APRForReddit t1_j0zcrog wrote

It’s called a gift exchange….

White elephant refers to the story of the Thai king giving people he didn’t like white elephants. They weren’t allowed to decline or get rid of the gift, and taking care of an elephant would bankrupt them.

That’s why it’s called white elephant. It’s about shitty gifts

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APRForReddit t1_j0z3tzt wrote

That’s cool. But it’s not a white elephant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange

“A white elephant gift exchange,[1] Yankee swap[2] or Dirty Santa[3][nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to gain a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item.”

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APRForReddit t1_j0b96mx wrote

It’s kind of funny. It’s not exactly a secret about what happened in 1776.

What is kind of surprising when you sit down and think about it is that the USA went from not-a-country to unquestionably the most dominant cultural, economic, and military super power in less than two centuries.

Also the UK wasn’t established as a country until the 19th century

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