As a New Worlder, I have to say, I sometimes feel bad for all

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As a New Worlder, I have to say, I sometimes feel bad for all of you Old World folk. You guys often talk about your long, textured histories as something to be proud of - and in many ways they are - but they also seem to bind you and keep you in a state of agitation for no real reason.

Whenever I visit forums like this or elsewhere where lots of Europeans visit, I can't help but be confused as to why you guys make your history such a core part of your identity. You make memes about it, you argue about it, you get worked up into fits of rage about it - and it's all do to with stuff like "well I'm descendant of this group of people who settled here 1200 years ago, therefore I will take beef with my neighbour 50 miles away who is for all intents and purposes part of my culture yet is descended from this OTHER group of people instead."

Don't you ever get tired of all the byzantine web of cultures, languages, territories, histories, traditions, and conflicts? How can you feel spiritually free while holding so tightly to things you had no control over? Now, none of this is to say that history or tradition are inherently bad - they teach us a lot, and act as guides for the future - but wanting to shape the world today in it's arbitrary image just doesn't make sense to me.