A.) Selective Perception/pg.335: seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others. Selective perception is when someone can see certain aspects of something but remain blind to others, whether that blindness is intentional or accidental is unknown. Selective perception become extremely apparent in the film about the asbestos disaster in Libby, Montana. The owner of the W. R. Grace display a huge case of selective perception in the court files showing him being questioned on the stand about the asbestos topic and his asbestos based business in Libby. Throughout the questioning on the stand we see the prosecutor asking many questions about asbestos and about what asbestos does to people. We can see the owner
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He always acted like he knew about nothing wrong that was going on with what he was doing or with the asbestos industry in general. Whether he really did not see it or whether he purposefully avoided the facts is unknown, but he displayed the characteristics of selective perception by not seeing the negative and honestly deadly effects of asbestos on his workers health. We also see some selective perception when we look at the townspeople as well. They saw certain features of the asbestos industry in their town like the good job supply and the large amount of dust, but they delved no further into the situation. They saw some of the characteristics, but were blind to the fact that it was severely detrimental to their health. The women who had their husbands come home covered in dust merely shrugged it off and got used to it as if it was supposed to be that way. The townspeople and the owners of W. R. Grace display selective perception in their distorted realities about asbestos and the effects of asbestos on the people and the town. Both …show more content…
The disaster in Libby is largely regarded as an environmental disaster as well as a major health risk. For years and years the town of Libby supplied most of the world with almost 80% of the asbestos used for different applications. The workers, and even the people living in the town were at risk from their environment from the very start. The asbestos plant located in Libby created exuberant amounts of dust and threw this dust into the air. Not only were the workers whom had direct exposure at risk, but weather patterns wafted the asbestos everywhere. The asbestos was not always in the form of dust, it is microscopic and was diffused throughout the air, so even if you were not directly at the plant you were still being exposed from the asbestos floating throughout the air coming from the facility. Also, the family members of those working in the plants were also plagued my asbestos fibers in the air. It was very common for the men to come home from a long day at the plant covered in dust. That dust was asbestos, they brought that asbestos dust into their homes and released that dust into the air inside their homes exposing they wives and family members directly to the dust on the body and clothes. The workers in the plant were also in a harshly disabling environment. They were
He always acted like he knew about nothing wrong that was going on with what he was doing or with the asbestos industry in general. Whether he really did not see it or whether he purposefully avoided the facts is unknown, but he displayed the characteristics of selective perception by not seeing the negative and honestly deadly effects of asbestos on his workers health. We also see some selective perception when we look at the townspeople as well. They saw certain features of the asbestos industry in their town like the good job supply and the large amount of dust, but they delved no further into the situation. They saw some of the characteristics, but were blind to the fact that it was severely detrimental to their health. The women who had their husbands come home covered in dust merely shrugged it off and got used to it as if it was supposed to be that way. The townspeople and the owners of W. R. Grace display selective perception in their distorted realities about asbestos and the effects of asbestos on the people and the town. Both …show more content…
The disaster in Libby is largely regarded as an environmental disaster as well as a major health risk. For years and years the town of Libby supplied most of the world with almost 80% of the asbestos used for different applications. The workers, and even the people living in the town were at risk from their environment from the very start. The asbestos plant located in Libby created exuberant amounts of dust and threw this dust into the air. Not only were the workers whom had direct exposure at risk, but weather patterns wafted the asbestos everywhere. The asbestos was not always in the form of dust, it is microscopic and was diffused throughout the air, so even if you were not directly at the plant you were still being exposed from the asbestos floating throughout the air coming from the facility. Also, the family members of those working in the plants were also plagued my asbestos fibers in the air. It was very common for the men to come home from a long day at the plant covered in dust. That dust was asbestos, they brought that asbestos dust into their homes and released that dust into the air inside their homes exposing they wives and family members directly to the dust on the body and clothes. The workers in the plant were also in a harshly disabling environment. They were