The whole country is your heritage. You don't get to enjoy what people 250 years ago did, and 150 years ago, but then you also get to totally discard what people 20 years ago did as entirely outside of what might affect you?

I'm acutely aware of the layers of personal responsibility, from what you actually do as an individual, then what e.g. your children do, what your local community does etc.; also back in time. You can have done stupid things as a teen but are now a responsible citizen etc.; that is all well understood.

Of course I am not personally responsible for what Hitler did, yet I can feel ashamed that my people enabled it. It's not that far away. My dad as a teenager got recruited into the Wehrmacht. If you learn that your dad or grandpa did something horrible, you feel no shame? Whatsoever? I don't know you at all, but I bet that is not who you are.