This is a cute video and a fun idea, and I am glad to have seen it and am happy that you shared the idea.
But this in no sense has any connection to a gift that would be a "white elephant". Ignorance of language is terrifying; it is a critical element of control as illustrated in Orwell's 1984. Nonetheless, so many walk seemingly gleeful into that abyss of ignorance, as did the maker of this video.