Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Mean-spirited, petty, nasty

I am currently an Ameriocan expat living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and have been living and working alongside the Dutch for over two years. I purchased this book because I had heard it was "funny" - well, it is most definitely NOT amusing. It is downright nasty most of the time, mean-spirited and petty the rest of it. It is certainly not the experience of myself and the other expats who I currently know actually live here. I have found the Dutch to be warm, funny, gracious, generous and completely unlike the parsimonious hypocrites depicted in the book. The authors should be ashamed of themselves. Don't buy this book - buy a ticket and get the real story yourself.