I would suggest that it's not appropriate to tell other people how to view their own history, particularly history that is recent enough that living people eith

I would suggest that it's not appropriate to tell other people how to view their own history, particularly history that is recent enough that living people either remember it or spoke to those who did. I do think there's definitely a real debate about when an artifact passes from "hey, that's ours, give it back" to "what a fascinating bit of world history, belonging to the world". There's also a very real history of literal colonialism going on here, that simply can not be discarded. It is probably an accurate concept to contexualize this as part of a country decolonizing itself and asserting that it has a valid history. Contextualizing for American audiences, the Summer Palace was burnt in the same time period as our civil war, and those ghosts are not near laid to rest. Anyway, like I said: if someone stole the Constitution, I'd generally be sore about it and see it as a patriotic good to get it back. even tho' there are a ton of copies everywhere, and the value is in the ideas.