Can cross cultural Marriages Bring Peace in the World?

As I was driving towards work this morning, dodging the traffic and trying not to hit any other cars, I stop at the red light and at that time the radio, which was just a back ground noise till then, starts talking about disruption of peace, uneasyness among India and Pakistan, friction in Arab countries and what not.

I started contemplating, why are we all fighting with each other, and the more I reflected upon it, the sooner I came to realize that since beginning of time, people have fought among themselves due to different beliefs. Different beliefs in thinking, acting, religion and so on. And for most part its due to ignorance, lack of understanding of other person's beliefs and being so protective about your own and clinging to it that we are not open to embrace others.

Then it struck me, how can I learn about other people's beliefs, culture, religion so that I become more open minded and embracive (dont know if this is a word, but you get the point).

What if our generation, brings down the religious barriers and what if we encourage CROSS CULTURAL marriages. If both spouses are from different cultures, different religions then they will get a chance to view their spouse's culture/religion first hand and learn from it. And when they have kids, they can teach them to respect and cherish other religions and cultures. A child born with both parents from different cultures/religions will be more in tuned to bring and embrace equality among humans and embrace others and hopefully bring down the barriers that cause us to fight with other countries just because they have different belief system.

What do you think, Could Cross Cultural Marriages be part of the solution to bring peace and harmony in this world???
by V