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To what extent should ancestral guilt impact on the opinions, actions and behaviours of their descendants today?

What attitude should current citizens of countries have in the present day to the acts of their forebears who committed atrocious acts on other people like the indigenous races? Should they live in guilt? Make restitution? Claim it is not their fault? Or ignore it simply as 'the past is the past, only the future matters'?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar If you as a black person married into a white family, you wouldn't expect to pay a slavery compensation tax to be divided amongst black people would you?

The same concept applies to why ancestral guilt shouldn't be applied to their descendants.
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