Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Liberal intellectual's viewpoint on the US.

The book is supposed to inform the newcomer, instead it's just full of generalizations as the author simply cannot keep herself from injecting her biases into some of the most important aspects of American lifestyle.For example, she mentions on crime that there are many guns "floating" around because "anyone can just walk into a store a buy a gun". However according to the author this is really because some zealots insist on intepreting the constitution the wrong way and if the founding fathers were around they'd find handguns as crazy as most foreigners do.Written by a liberal 'intellectual' that feels Christians and conservatives are fundamentalists and not that enlightened. I would think an impartial and honest book on culture clash would focus on the differences between the US and abroad without having the need to comment on policies.