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opposed to

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Speaker:? So there's a lot of Aboriginals there and so she has to be careful that she's- speaks politically correct but then the Aboriginals there have their own- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah and then because now she's in the men mining industry, opposed to her office- so I think i-- it's it- it's not- it has to do with your culture but it also has to do with your standing. Are you a low-class person, are you a middle-class person, are you a high-class person.

"as opposed to"

Speaker: Deborah Dunn, Gender: Female, Age at interview: 53, Interview: 2010, Timmins