I think that if everyone started studying science and engineering, we'd deal with most of our race problems.
First off, you'd tilt the balance, and the asian kids who now dominate the area would have to talk to you, or risk not being able to participate in group projects. Plus, in order to collaborate in groups, all types of ethnic slang and cliquish use of language would have to be left at home, permitting real integration.
Secondly, all really thoughtful science types are at least a little bi-curious. This would lead to white, black, asian and hispanic men experimenting with one another and realizing that everything they ever heard about dick size was a total myth. (TOTAL myth. Sorry to break it to you. ;) The women would find all of that guy-on-guy just sexy,too.
And thirdly, everyone would then be equipped to collaborate to use science to raise living standards, reducing scarcity, poverty and crime, and thereby the major sources of social tensions. This progress would also lead to the ultimate end goal of space-faring man, and it's hard to be cliquish when you're out in interstellar space, depending on your respective skills to maintain the mutual life support system. In fact, the closeness of capsule living might just lead to more mind-opening sexual experimentation -- if scientific progress hasn't done away with genders by then. I mean, by that point we might all be colored green, to promote photosynthesis, and each have a penis on the right and a vagina on the left, so that we all fit together like legos.
Just some thoughts. Peace out, Centreville!
Dimensions:
http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm
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Möbius Transformations Revealed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1fIsUNhO4
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