Libby Montana Asbestos Video Analysis

a) life expectancy/ the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live. Libby Montana and any other place that deals with asbestos should be in a separate category because, this video shows that most of the people in the town died a lot younger. The average life expectance in the united states is around the age of eighty. Since it takes forty years from exposure for effects of asbestos to fully develop, only people who are not exposed until they are forty can live this long and that is only an average, some people live to be one hundred years old. In this video it showed how the minors would bring the dust from asbestos home on their cloths and they would use the products in everyday life. For example, …show more content…
This is basically doing things to change the way people see us. In this video, the people of Libby couldn’t even find anything related to asbestos in the library. Someone was using impression management to control the impression that others receive of them by hiding the facts and keeping it secret. Another example in this video, of impression management, is that some of the business owners and townspeople were against doing anything to publicize this situation. They worried about peoples’ opinion or that they would be looked down upon because of this, and probably that outsiders would not want to come there for fear that, they too, could inhale something and be infected with lung disease. The W.R. Grace company used impression management by simply ignoring the fact and by not giving their employees all the information they needed about what their product really was, the effects of it and safety measures to use to avoid exposure to it. If they would have done this, it may have given customers a bad impression of the product and made them lose profits because they may stop buying it. W.R. Grace, also used impression management in the court interview. He tried to give the impression that he knew nothing about the dangers of asbestos and tried to act innocent but a few years prior to this he, himself, must have been diagnosed with something related to asbestos exposure because …show more content…
In other words, not looking down on someone because of their culture, but trying to understand them better. In one way, I can use cultural relativism about the people of this culture and in another I cannot. I can understand the townspeople and mine workers (somewhat) but I cannot understand the mining company and its management. These people lived in a small town and there were not very many options when it came to jobs. As I said before, I probably would have opted to do one of the other jobs rather than work in the mine, but I can understand taking a job that may have risks to my health. I took a job at a chemical plant and worked there for thirteen years even though I knew that some of the chemicals we used were dangerous. I did this because, at the time I was a single mother and needed a better paying job to support my family. Other, less dangerous jobs, did not pay as much. Since the people of Libby were not properly informed about how bad the stuff really was, they just thought they were earning a living and supporting their families. Even if some of them did know, they may have still worked there because they needed the job. I cannot judge these people for staying in the town or working at the mining company because, in their situation, I may have done the same thing. However, I do not have cultural relativism when it comes to the company management people. I do judge