maybe instead of prayers only starting "our father who art in heaven" every day, we should simply repeat "we're all made the same" 10 times (and yet it's still so difficult for us to really believe this simple fact). i often find myself in the middle of the "melting pot" backsliding into old misconceptions about other people- and they're probably struggling at the same time against thinking something similar about me!
The power of music
I found the reaction of the atendees of the The New York Philharmonic performance in Pyongyang, North Korea rather profound. Maybe it won't have any meaning in the long run, but for me, it was a ray of hope in a dark place.