Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Being ethnocentric is funny. Ha ha.

...P>Don't get me wrong - I'm big fan of Mr. Barry's: I think I've managed to read most of his published works and generally found myself laughing through most of them. There ARE some funny passages here (I know lots of people who have had the exact same reaction to Japanese cuisine as Barry), but they are few and far between. The general pattern of this book seems to be 1) point out something different from American culture, and then 2) reiterate that he considers it weird. Granted, trying to understand an alien culture is not exactly an easy thing to do, but I would expect some effort to be given to the subject.Usually, Barry shows a reasonable amount of insight into his topic (ex. "Dave Barry in Cyberspace"), but that insight does not appear to be present here....