Another Sunday, another weekly roundup! For any of you who might not have enough reading material for a lazy Sunday afternoon, I’m pretty sure that I’ve got you covered! Head over to CoCorina to freshen up your desktop wallpaper with her beautiful botanical freebie, re-think the people who are in your life and if they are good for you or not, test your own geography skills and see how many countries you could place on a map of Africa, read the scientific formula for “falling in love,” and learn more about the whitewashing of hollywood – which is sadly absolutely nothing new.

001: To fall in love with anyone, do this
002: Remove these toxic people from your life
003: The whitewashing of the film industry and hollywood continues
004: When asked to label a map of Africa after the Boko Haram Massacre, this was the result
005:This beautiful botanical pattern from CoCorrina


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  • Wow, the ‘how to fall in love’ post was very interesting! You’d have to be very confident in yourself to ask someone to do all that (the questions and looking into each others eyes thing) with you though!

    http://technicolourdreamer.blogspot.com

    • rae

      I think so too! Glad you enjoyed the article!

  • What great reads! So nice to have discovered your blog :) x

    • rae

      So glad that you enjoy it!

  • This is great. I’m probably overly intrigued by the concept and psychology behind “falling in love” so that first link will be really interesting to read!

    • rae

      So glad you enjoyed the article!

  • I love the mix of content you always incorporate in these posts, Rae! Some lighter, some heavy, some happy – but all interesting and fascinating. I haven’t seen 3 and 4 yet so I’m going to check them out now! Happy Sunday!

    xx Kathryn
    http://www.throughthethicket.ca

    • Sorry – coming back to comment on that Mic piece about the map labelling. Very interesting. To be sure, there is a huge problem with the (lack of) media representation of events outside of the western world. Obviously, we know that structuralized racism means that most Americans have a lack of empathy for the (non-white) “other”. And while that article was fascinating, I also wonder if people’s inability to label a map is actually a good way to show that? I honestly think a lot of people wouldn’t be able to pick France out on a map, and isn’t there some statistic floating around that a fairly large percentage of Americans can’t identify the US On a world map?

      Definitely not disagreeing with the points made in the article at all, just the method. What do you think?

      • rae

        I do agree with you. Lack of geographical knowledge of a continent is not a complete indicator of lack of interest/knowledge or white dominance in the world – you are entirely right – I am sure a lot Americans can’t even label parts of Europe – and part of this is not America’s fault. The US is the size of most continents and being so insular (even though we are attached to Canada and South America physically, there is a bit of a island mentality in the US since we are to autonomous unto ourselves). Still, I think it does raise a larger issue overall, especially because although many might not be able to label a map of Europe, they could definitely rattle off more names of European countries than African ones which I do think has a lot to do with the fact that people view Europeans as individuals from different cultures and countries consisting of many languages and many view Africa as this giant landmass of “dark people”. Although the coverage of Africa is very scant, and this is not our fault, we should then be fighting for more equal representation of all people and all places.

        • You’re totally right. There is a tendency to see Africa as a monolith rather than unique cultures, identities, ethnic groups and traditions. It drives me nuts when people say stuff like, “I’m going on a trip to Africa!” Great, but where? Because saying that is absolutely meaningless, and simply by phrasing it that way, makes me question your intentions as to why you’re taking that trip to begin with … Thanks again for sharing this Rae and for the great discussion. You’re the best! Hope you have a happy Friday and weekend.

          • rae

            Thanks so much Kathryn, I’m always happy when things that are posted here become bigger discussions that we can really talk about and share our opinions on! Hope you have a lovely Friday and weekend too!

    • rae

      Thanks, Kathryn!

  • oooh those botanical patterns are gorgeous, i love it!

    • rae

      Glad you enjoyed!

  • Thanks for the links dear!

    • rae

      No problem! Glad you enjoyed!

  • To me fair, the pencil in countries in Africa must be pretty tricky!

    Buckets & Spades

  • Sinead Dreaming

    Great links. I especially love the second one, I think it’s really important to surround ourselves with positive people who add something to our lives only :) xxx

    Sinead | sineaddreamingagain.blogspot.ie

    • rae

      Really glad you liked the selection. And yes, I agree as well! We should always be learning from those around us and also be able to teach others something in return too :)

  • I just found your blog and I’m loving it.

    • rae

      Glad to hear it!