Confused

So after leaving class Tuesday, I can say I was confused about peoples theories and how some people in class imagine the world as this perfect place where everybody and everything is perfect. It really got me stressed out and made me think more into what we were talking about, I posed a question after my presentation about heritage and if its going to continue on generation after generation and if that bond between yourself and your heritage would be as strong in two more generations as it was for your great grandmother. Some people honestly believe the answer was yes and i am sorry that is completely 100% FALSE. That is like saying Martin Luther King Jr.'s great great grandson will feel the same pain and same emotional attachment to the civil rights movement, and that is just preposterous. This might push some peoples buttons and that's fine, I like feedback but comparing heritage of my great grandmother who came straight off the boat to Ellis Island, and experienced all the pain and desperation to become a part of the U.S. and still retain her strong Irish beliefs, to the children I may have is hilarious to me. You CAN NOT have the same emotional and strong attachment to a heritage if you did not experience the events and hardships that came along with it. I understand some people will always celebrate their heritage but its a fact that its becoming a commercialized industry and every holiday that takes place is just another chance for the U.S. to make another dollar and drink another beer.