The idea that a person should look back on their heritage and see it as if they did it themselves, is a bad outlook of the past in my opinion. I see this a lot, somebody gets upset over an item or some document granted to them by heritage be taken down or disrupted. 'My great, great granddaddy did this, my great great granddaddy did that." what do you expect people to look at you fondly for something your lineage did before you were even a sperm cell.
My great great granddaddy could be a psychopathic mutant Inbred for all I give a shit. My actions are not signified by other peoples actions in the past or frankly in the present. The only persons actions or passions are my own not some old past figures. If I want a statement its nobody else's but mine and not my fathers or his fathers or some second cousin that someone can just pull out when it's not important .
 I don't care about your great, great ,great granddaddy, or mine for that matter because i never meet them and their legacy means nothing to me.The argument to this always branches from knowing history and reteaching history. That's fine for textbooks and relevant for museums but the fact of the matter is some pull this crap out of thin air in debates with no context. A person in modern day could lose their home, starve to death on the streets or many other horrible things meanwhile they  moan about their ancestors as if they were there, again if something that they did is prevalent to what I am doing or discussing it can and should be brought up, but I don't care about my heritage because I want to completely own the life I have and I want to be represented by only me and the people I've interacted with. Teaching history is the most unbiased when there isn't a personal connection.
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