if your grandfather had a diploma, your father had a diploma, then there is no need for you to show your diploma. An upbringing in a proper family, where values were cultivated, guarantees decency.

 I personally call this logic to "sit on old glory without developing and improving yourself." The lack of competence can be vital(in negative sense) when the person takes part in serious task as in the representative government of in any other such responsible undertakings. And so I find the generic patriotism unsuitable in many areas. The background is important, but the self-mastery and improvement outweught it nowadays.

I'm not ugly,but my beauty is a total creation.Hegel