The Minamata disease, a disease which produced severe nervous disorders and birth defects, was traced to the fact that the Chisso Chemical Company dumped mercury into a bay where Japanese villagers fished. The villagers of Minamata, the village in which the company was located, refused to sue the chemical company. However, the residents of Niigata, a fishing village forty miles up the river from the factory, sued the chemical company. Which of the following explanations flows from the conflict paradigm? A. The chemical company controlled more of the village resources in Minamata than in Nligato. B. The Japanese culture frowns on lawsuits. C. The Minamata victims were less likely to be tied socially, economically, and physically to the company that were the Niigato victims. D. People n Niigato aren't as nice as people in Minamata.

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Aubrie Lowe

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6 May, 09:29

The Minamata disease, a disease which produced severe nervous disorders and birth defects, was traced to the fact that the Chisso Chemical Company dumped mercury into a bay where Japanese villagers fished. The villagers of Minamata, the village in which the company was located, refused to sue the chemical company. However, the residents of Niigata, a fishing village forty miles up the river from the factory, sued the chemical company. Which of the following explanations flows from the conflict paradigm? A. The chemical company controlled more of the village resources in Minamata than in Nligato. B. The Japanese culture frowns on lawsuits. C. The Minamata victims were less likely to be tied socially, economically, and physically to the company that were the Niigato victims. D. People n Niigato aren't as nice as people in Minamata.

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Patricia Kim · Answer 1

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Explanation:

B If the Japanese culture frowns on lawsuits the Niigato residents wouldn't have sued the company.

C C would have been the correct answer if ¨less¨ would have been ¨more¨.

D Being nice or not doesn't make much of a difference; what matters is economic dependency so it must be A