is the term CHINESE AUCTION offensive?

dixee.deluxe

nft

tiannalee

dont know what it means

KatFCo

I've never heard of one, but I'm pretty sure they didn't originate in China--lived there 2 years and never heard about a special kind of auction. I did find this article, but since it's a letter to the editor, I'm not sure if it's true.

https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DE1031F931A25750C0A9609C8B63

MsCat19

My Chinese friend finds it funny, but he's a pretty weird guy...

jenbelsan

We do a "random crap" gift exchange at Christmas (which is awesome fun), and we had occasionally called it a Chinese gift exchange, but now it's termed WHite Elephant?