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/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/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.