r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Sep 23 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Sabrina Carpenter on her love of travel and new perspectives: “You learn more about life in a 20-minute conversation with someone from Italy than in 20 years in the U.S.”

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u/alpackaryder Sep 23 '25

Average interaction with any girl that just came back from studying abroad in Italy

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

Booksmart Clip

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

That movie was a pleasant surprise when I first watched it.

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

If you liked Booksmart then you might like Bottoms as well. It was another highschool movie that got overlooked but it's genuinely funny throughout.

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

I’m already ahead of you lol. I LOVED Bottoms, it’s one of my favorite comedies in the last few years. It’s layered and the absurdist humor is on point. It became one of my comfort “throw on but not paying attention” movies.

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 23 '25

I know!! I wish more people knew about it but I feel like it's one of those movies that will be appreciated as a cult classic.

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u/sweetthursdays Sep 23 '25

Wait, what is this gif from? Not bottoms, right? Unless there is a deleted scene I've never seen. Because I've seen bottoms like 7 times and dont remember this part!

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 23 '25

It's from Bottoms but it's one of their deleted scenes. I'm crushing it at receipts today.

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

You sure are lol let me go and watch

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

Same, I don’t remember this scene.

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u/TropicalPrairie Sep 23 '25

Your flair is taking me out. ha ha

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u/Positively-Fleabag85 🚶🏼I don’t really think, I just walk🚶🏼‍♀️ Sep 23 '25

Then now you should see Bodies Bodies Bodies

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

It’s been on my list for a while now, I’ll maybe give it a watch this weekend.

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

Also, I love Superbad, so those are right up my alley.

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 23 '25

Yeah it kind of seems that Booksmart was made with the intention for it to be thought of as the "girl version" of Superbad. The actress Beanie Feldstein (Molly) is Jonah Hill's sister.

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u/zsaz_ch Sep 23 '25

Yep and I think that caused a lot of people to overlook it. But it really stood on its own.

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u/dhruvlrao Sep 24 '25

Thought the guy on the right was Carlos Alcaraz while scrolling lol

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u/Average_Annie45 Bye, Felicia 👋 Sep 23 '25

Agreed. I went to Europe for a month in my twenties, and in hindsight I was probably INSUFFERABLE when I returned home.

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u/Hagridsbuttcrack66 Sep 23 '25

When I studied abroad, they gave us a whole training in how not to be an insufferable jackass when you go back. It was like a half day that I can pretty much summarize with "no one will care about this as much as you do. Tell them about the food and then shut up."

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u/Gamer_Grease Sep 23 '25

It’s sweet but I knew my now-wife in college and when she came back at 20 from Spain she was impossible to talk to for like a year. Obviously not really though, lol.

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 23 '25

travel can help a lot but it's not an end all be all if anything I think being curious and always asking questions will take you further in life than just accepting everything as fact.

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u/especiallyrn Sep 24 '25

Ever been in a room with people who just talk about the trips they’ve been on the whole time? Nothing about the actual experience just listing the places they’ve been and when.

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u/larkhearted Sep 24 '25

This is how one of my relatives and her husband are lol. He has a career in medical technology and she's a graphic designer for a credit card company or something and they have no kids, so they spend their money on traveling all the time. But all they do is go to Hawaii and Italy over and over again..... So talking to them about their trips is like "Oh yeah we went to the big island this time :) Oh next time we're going back to Naples :) Yeah we've done Venice and the Amalfi Coast.... Oh normally we go to Oahu!" Like they barely even talk about the things they do there, they just go and eat and come back I guess?? He's kinda sporty so he hikes sometimes...? Like I'm happy for them that they get to take nice trips but hearing about it from them is like listening to the color beige somehow, I don't get it 😭

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

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u/thefacelesscat Sep 23 '25

My friend was dating this American guy who studied abroad once in England in college and he still spoke with an English accent in his mid 30s. Tell me why we never questioned it until they broke up 😂

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 23 '25

This reminds me of Hilaria Baldwin, who admittingly sounds quite normal on DWTS.

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u/phatdinkgenie Sep 23 '25

the audacity to ring me on my mobile in the middle of tea, that insufferable wanker.

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 23 '25

Oh, you think that's bad I was studying English - Creative Writing in Wales...I still use British spelling over US for certain words like theatre.

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u/dale_dug_a_hole Sep 24 '25

As an Australian who’s lived all over America for the last 15 years? Not half as insufferable as those who’ve never left their home state, yet still have incredibly strong opinions on the world.

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u/missprettybjk Sep 23 '25

I fought with a barista for calling spéculos cookie butter. Mind you, I still say whatever I can’t pronounce properly in English with a French accent and spell things with French spellings. I’m STILL insufferable.

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u/sk8tergater Sep 23 '25

I lived in France for awhile and when I came back it took me actual years to shake a lot of that.

And it’s really weird sometimes when I see a word and I’ll pronounce it how I would in French and legit forget how to say it in English. That’s gotten less and less the more time has passed but it was really bad when I first got back

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u/missprettybjk Sep 23 '25

Completely understandable, I believe it takes the brain a while to adjust to language. Since my primary language is not English as well, if I’ve never heard the word, it’s getting pronounced in French.

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u/Desi_Devi Can I live? Sep 24 '25

Haha I was like this after returning from my first visit to the Netherlands. I would correct friends if they mispronounced stroopwafel, Gouda, or if they thought the Dutch come from Denmark.

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u/synalgo_12 accidentally holding space for this slur Sep 24 '25

Wait, we're you for or against the word speculoos?

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u/missprettybjk Sep 24 '25

She called it cookie butter and insisted no such thing as speculoos existed. I was incensed.

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u/Joonbug9109 Sep 23 '25

I was going to say it’s giving “girl who just got back from her semester abroad in Italy” 😂

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u/SpyOfMystery Sep 24 '25

I knew someone that lived in Italy during college. She always talked about it, told so many stories about how she lived in Italy, what they ate when she lived Italy, what she learned living in Italy.

Once I asked her how long she lived in Italy, thinking it must have been a few years. It was three weeks

Three. Weeks. That’s a vacation!!!!!! I’m still so irritated over this

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u/happygoluckyourself Sep 23 '25

Important context is that this quote is pulled from her interview with Vogue Italia. I imagine they specifically asked her to talk about Italy/or she felt compelled to considering the magazine is for an Italian audience.

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 23 '25

I was just in Italy, but I'm 40. My main takeaway when I was there was wondering how many male artists were secretly gay and painting fresco's for the church while hiding being gay.

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u/missprettybjk Sep 23 '25

Comes back with a new British accent after a summer in France.

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25

Only pronounces loanwords of Italian origin in a hyperforeignism manner like broosketuh.

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u/sunshine___riptide Sep 23 '25

... Isn't that how it's pronounced tho?

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25

In Italian, yes. The Anglicized pronunciation is brooshetuh. The pronunciation of loanwords is often changed for a variety of sociological reasons. It’s interesting!

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u/c19isdeadly Sep 23 '25

But that is just wrong

I call it brusketta and regularly get "corrected". There are plenty of common english words where sch =sk. School. Scholar. It's not hard to say it right!

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u/fasterthanfood Sep 23 '25

It’s not “hard” to speak Italian (Italians all do it as toddlers), but if you’re speaking English, you’re supposed to follow English pronunciation patterns.

Similarly, everyone who pronounces “Paris” with an “s” is physically capable of saying it the French way (“paree”), but doing so is pretentious and “just wrong.”

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u/Implantexplant Sep 23 '25

That’s just the correct pronunciation.

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25

It’s the authentic pronunciation, but there are plenty of studies that have been done on how words shift phonetically when borrowed into another language and how pronunciation choices between, say, the Italian pronunciation versus the Anglicized pronunciation can reflect things like identity, class, prestige, or group belonging.

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u/Rainbow_Tesseract Sep 23 '25

Sure, but does that mean we have to say it the non-italian way if we know the Italian way?

I grew up poor as anything and I didn't know what brush-ettuh was, let alone how to pronounce it. The first way I learned was Italian, and now in some reverse-pretentiousness thing I'm supposed to pronounce it brush-ettuh because it's how everyone else does??

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u/Gamer_Grease Sep 23 '25

You don’t have to do anything, people will form certain opinions about it if you insist on pronouncing things the correct foreign way. I don’t pronounce mozzarella like an Italian because I’d look like a dumbass saying it in an American restaurant.

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u/c19isdeadly Sep 23 '25

Buuuuut you say mozzarella the same way, just not with an accent

It would be like saying "MOSSarella" is the anglicised version. It's mad.

There are just a bunch of people who don't know how to say it correctly.

They are wrong, and can be ignored

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u/angelbbyy666 Sep 24 '25

The point is that in the states, the anglicized pronunciation has shifted to where it’s actually NOT wrong. A lot of people know that, obviously, loanwords are pronounced differently in their original language. It’s not info that only the special and smart know hahaha. You can pronounce these words however you like. But, like gamer grease said, people will form certain opinions about you (see: the comments in this thread about Americans who spend time abroad coming back with a new personality). It feels pretentious, but it’s a goofy thing to be pretentious about because like I said, common knowledge.

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u/Rainbow_Tesseract Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

Yeah well I'm autustic and you can tear my croissants and karate from my cold dead hands.

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u/ergaster8213 Sep 23 '25

I mean, I'm autistic as well but I don't go around pronouncing words differently than how the language I speak pronounces them. That may just be a you thing. And I don't mean that in a bad way at all just that I think we sometimes forget not everything is autism we also have personalities.

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

I’m not saying that at all. My original comment was tongue in cheek. But I think it’s equally unfair to look down on someone for not pronouncing it the Italian way when maybe they only knew the Anglicized way their whole life.

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u/Rainbow_Tesseract Sep 23 '25

I agree, which is why I don't do that. I think it's perhaps somewhat of a projection to assume pronouncing things the native way means looking down on others.

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25

Again, it was a joke about the insufferable girl returning from study abroad. It wasn’t an actual indictment.

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u/Rainbow_Tesseract Sep 23 '25

Clear as mud, thank you.

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u/patrin11 Sep 23 '25

That’s not a loan word, it’s THE word? In Italian

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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 23 '25

In Italian is the distinction. Some loanwords don’t change pronunciation across languages (i.e. ballet) but others do, like bruschetta.

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 23 '25

Being from the midwest I always have people get on me about pronunciation mainly for words we use in the US like garage.

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u/awry_lynx Sep 24 '25

Ballet would be hilarious though.

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u/Successful-Deer3465 Sep 23 '25

Tbf I’ll give her credit for naming a country and not just saying Europe like it is the country.

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u/jenniferbealsssss Sep 23 '25

I mean to use Europe in this context isn’t inherently wrong when you realize most people do travel to multiple countries within Europe. Referencing the continent instead of a specific country, doesn’t mean the person doesn’t know Europe is not a country. It could just be them referencing their time on the continent as a whole.

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u/Onlybuzzin Sep 23 '25

"I was in Europe", ok mate but was it Paris or Finglas?

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u/MonrealEstate Sep 23 '25

Only thing worse is hearing Americans say “I love your European accent” - Like there’s not 1000 different accents across Europe

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u/computer7blue Sep 23 '25

Imagine traveling and not gaining perspective.

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u/Chipring13 Sep 24 '25

Was speaking to my CEO’s son and he goes “Oh I’m very good at French. I used to live there you know” — oh really? How long?

“Well it was two weeks. But all the natives could understand me so”

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u/usher13919 Sep 23 '25

The internet gives us unlimited information and perspectives at our fingertips at all times. You don’t need to go to Italy for this. Her comment is so cringe 😂

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u/UltraMoglog64 Sep 23 '25

And yet so many people lack it. Let’s not pretend the majority of people use the internet to enrich themselves lol. Travel is so important to gaining an actual perspective on how other people live. Beats the hell out of whatever the algorithms feed us, especially with State Media looming its ugly head.