A gift or present is an item that is given to someone without expecting payment or refund. Item is not a gift if the item is already owned by the person given. Although gift giving may involve reciprocal expectations, gifts must be free. In many countries, the act of exchanging money, goods, etc. Can maintain social relationships and contribute to social cohesion. Economists have outlined the gift-giving economy into the gift economy idea. By extension, the term gift may refer to any service item or action that makes the other person happier or less sad, especially as an aid, including forgiveness and kindness. Gifts are also first and foremost presented at occasions such as birthdays and holidays.
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Presentations
In many cultures, gifts are traditionally packed in several ways. For example, in Western culture, gifts are often wrapped in wrapping paper and accompanied by a prize note that can record the event, the recipient's name and the name of the giver. In Chinese culture, red packaging connotes luck. Although cheap gifts are common among co-workers, co-workers and acquaintances, expensive gifts or romances are considered more appropriate among close friends, romantic interests, or relatives.
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Events gifting
Gift giving events may:
- A private coronation coronation coronation expression presented by a newly crowned king to an official coronation guest by court protocol for the level
- The expression of crowning recognition for a national event The official coronation prize, Royal or Imperial is commissioned by the coronation commission presented to the newly crowned king, as a personal memento.
- Expression of love or friendship
- Thank you expression for the gift you received.
- The expression of piety, in the form of charity.
- Expression of solidarity, in the form of mutual help.
- To share the wealth.
- To compensate for misfortune.
- Offers a tourist souvenir.
- Custom, on occasion (often celebration) like
- Birthdays (people who have birthdays give cookies, etc. and/or receive gifts).
- Potlatch, in a society where status is associated with gift giving rather than acquisition.
- Christmas (throughout the history of Christmas gifts, people have given yet another gift, often pretending they are abandoned by Santa Claus, son of Christ or Saint Nicholas).
- The Feast of Saint Nicholas (people giving gifts, often receiving presents from Saint Nicholas).
- Easter baskets with brown eggs, jelly beans, and chocolate bunnies are gifts given at Easter.
- Greek Orthodox Christians in Greece, will give gifts to family and friends on the Feast of Saint Basil.
- Muslims give gifts to family and friends, known as Eidi, to Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan) and to Eid al-Adha.
- American Jews give Hanukkah presents to family and friends.
- Hindus give Diwali and Pongal gifts to family and friends.
- Buddhists reward Waisak to family and friends.
- Prizes are given to African Americans and friends in Kwanzaa.
- Marriage (couples receive gifts and give food and/or drinks at wedding receptions).
- Wedding anniversary (every couple receives a gift).
- A funeral (visitors bring flowers, relatives of the deceased give food and/or drink after the ceremony).
- Birth (baby receives a gift, or mother receives a gift from a father known as a push gift).
- Pass the exam (the student receives the prize).
- Father's Day (the father receives the prize).
- Mother's Day (mother receives a gift).
- Siblings Day (siblings receive a gift)
- The exchange of gifts between guests and the host is often a traditional practice.
- Lagniappe
- Retirement Gifts
- Greeting Greeting
- Engagement Prize
- House Moving Party Gifts
As reinforcement and manipulation
Giving a gift to someone is not always just an altruistic act. This can be given in the hope that the recipient responds in a certain way. Possibly a positive reinforcement form in return for obedience, perhaps for manipulative and abusive purposes.
Unwanted gift
Most prizes are undesirable, or the giver pays more for the item than the recipient's value, resulting in a misallocation of the economic resources known as deadweight loss. Unwanted gifts are often changed, donated to charity, or discarded. Gifts that really burden the recipient, either due to maintenance or storage or disposal costs, are known as white elephants.
One way to reduce discrepancies between buyers and recipients is continued coordination, which is often done in the form of wedding lists or Christmas lists. Special marriage registrations are often kept in one shop, which can point to the right items to buy (produce suitable household appliances), and to coordinate purchases so that the same gift is not purchased by different guests. One study found that wedding guests departing from the registry usually did so because they wanted to signal a closer relationship to the couple by personalizing the gift, and also found that as a result of disobeying the recipient's preferences, their prizes were priced less frequently.
It is estimated that $ 3.4 billion is spent on unwanted Christmas gifts in the United States by 2017. Days after Christmas are usually the busiest days to return in countries with a large Christmas gift tradition. The total value of gift cards that have not been redeemed purchased in the US each year is estimated at around one billion dollars.
Legal aspects
In general law, for a reward to have a legal effect, it is necessary that there is (1) the intention by the donor to give the prize; and (2) the delivery to the recipient of the goods to be given as a gift.
In some countries, certain types of prizes over a certain amount of money are taxed. For the United States, see Gift taxes in the United States.
In some contexts, gift-giving can be interpreted as a bribe. This tends to occur in situations where a gift is given by implicit or explicit agreement between the gift giver and the recipient that some type of service will be provided (often outside the normal normal method) due to the prize. Some groups, such as government workers, may have strict rules regarding gift giving and acceptance so as to avoid the appearance of madness.
Religious view
Lewis Hyde states in The Gift that Christianity considers the Incarnation and death of Jesus the next to be the greatest gift to mankind, and that Jataka contains the story of the Buddha in his incarnation as Wise Hare who gave the last alms by offering himself as a food for Sakka. (Hyde, 1983, 58-60)
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the bread and wine consecrated during the Divine Liturgy is referred to as the "Gift." First of all they are the gifts of the community (both individually and corporately) to God, and then, after the epiclesis, the Body's Gift and Blood for the Church.
The sacrifice of the ritual can be seen as a return gift to the god.
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References
Further reading
- AntÃÆ'³n, C., Camarero, C. and Gil, F. (2014), Gift-giving culture: What do consumers expect from commercial and personal contexts? Journal of Consumer Behavior, 13: 31-41. doi: 10.1002/cb.1452
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