We are also not born with original sin and should not feel guilt for the historic actions of empire and kingdoms where the population had no democratic mandate.

We are also not born with original sin and should not feel guilt for the historic actions of empire and kingdoms where the population had no democratic mandate. History is history good and bad. The obsession about framing history as some sort of unpaid debt towards people dead long ago is ridiculous. If you want to go down that route I expect the Arabs to line up and apologize for the extinguishing the multicultural societies in the Middle East and North Africa, or the mongols for the perpetuated mass murder of Asians, Russians and Europeans . Ok people did bad things 400 years ago. So what? Don’t repeat history that’s is the only long term lesson to be learned.