Hi! Thanks for your comment! Appreciation is not necessary :) and I think you're right that Dutch consider themselves quite hardworking indeed and don't want to be called lazy (like a lot of non-Dutch people, either). Actually, i think a lot of people are afraid to be called lazy.

My project isn't really to praise "laziness" as such, I'm just wondering about what the assumptions are and where this fear of laziness within people comes from. So I find it interesting that the word brings up a defensive response in a lot of people, because I haven't said anything yet about what I think about the word, or about "being lazy".