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I don't particularly think you should feel shame for what your forebears did. I don't feel shame for the appalling things my forebears did to various native populations around the globe.
But I think you owe a little sensitivity. You (and I) are living with the fruits of those actions. Your country was built on the suffering and loss of the native population of that land, as well as the kidnapped and displaced population of slaves. Not so very long ago. You are, after all, a very young nation.
You remember the good stuff. You remember the things that make you proud - you venerate the founding fathers and the constitution they wrote. Yet you expect the descendants of those who fell in the wake of that nation building to just let their memories, their history fade by the wayside.
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