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Professor expects a short argumentative essay for Sita Sings The Blues: that is, one in which you have a point you intend to prove or show through the use of argument and evidence. 
The paper is a short (900-1000 words) argumentative/persuasive essay. To write it, you need to have a thesis (a point you are going to prove by supporting arguments and evidence). The question you need to answer in this paper is really very simple:

Is this film ethnocentric? In other words, although it concerns a traditional Hindu story and uses visual elements from Indian culture, is it essentially “American” in its viewpoint? Is the film respectful of Indian culture or mocking it?

To be ethnocentric means to evaluate another group or culture solely by the standards of your own. The way your group acts is the only right way to behave, and your customs and beliefs are superior to those of other groups. The positive of this is that it offers confidence and assurance to the culture. It helps the group remain cohesive and centered. The negative is that ethnocentrism can lead to arrogance and a tendency to ignore the useful and even superior knowledge or mindset another group might offer. For example, in Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, he argues that the Scandinavian settlers of Greenland could have survived if they had adopted aspects of the indigenous culture, such as building waterproof fishing kayaks and living mainly by fishing, because the native culture was better adapted to the realities of the climate and ecosystem. But ethnocentrism led them to reject native ways as inferior and insist on trying to run farms, and so they perished.

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