Accusing Nederlanders of being misers is not a US-only phenomenon. Everyone thinks the Dutch are tight.
Actually it has a historical reason. Holland, as it then was, was an early pioneer of trade. More aristocratic countries like France and Britain looked down upon trade as beneath them. Such a view was particularly prominent in Catholic countries where the crown tended to have a grater grip on power. The Huguenots were France's best craftspeople and, as a result, traders. Until they were all kicked out.
Even in Protestant England the conflict existed, though. The aristocratic Tories (conservatives) relied upon land as both capital and surplus value whereas the Whigs (liberals) tended toward trade. "Trade" was an insult flung as people like Captain Vancouver, for example, because of his familial background. Traders were considered to be money grubbing, petit bourgeois bastards—and not without reason.
I never thought any of this would come up in a discussion about the PC Engine. See—the moral panickers in the 80s were wrong: games don't make you stupid.
A friend of mine is married to a Dutch person. I think she might be a bit of a miser. Mind you, he's a lazy, waste monkey.
There could be a correlation between the clothing and the monogamy. Who knows...
They're also famous for tiny beers with huge heads and bland food. Still, I like the Netherlands. Are you working there or just loafing around?
