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Rotter Posted 18 years ago
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Quarter Indian
1 b 00 In an age of on-message machine politicians, Boris Johnson - who has just been elected mayor of London - is a one-off. 02 b 02 br
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00 Often described as a buffoon, even by his admirers, his bumbling, self-deprecating persona has long made him one of the best known politicians through his appearances on TV chat shows. 02 br
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00 He has the typical upper class English background of Eton public school, Oxford University and a father who is a Conservative politician. 02 br
00 But he is no stereotypical aristocrat - he was born in New York and was a US citizen until recently, his early schooling was in Brussels, he is descended from a minister in the Ottoman Empire and his children are, as he put it, a quarter Indian. 02 br
00 Nothing about the 43-year-old now given huge powers over one of the world's great cities is as straightforward as it appears. 02 br
00 His academic records prove him to have powerful intellect, while colleagues and friends attest to an equally powerful sense of ambition. 02 br
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00 His children are, as he put it, a quarter Indian. 02 br
01 b 00 What does the above mean? 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 Do the children live in an Indian quarter? There maybe an area dominated byr people of Indian origin. 02 b 02 br
00 I read that he is married with four children. 02 br
00 He is of Turkish descent. His great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, a Turkish journalist, was briefly interior minister in the government of Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. 02 br
00 His grandfather Osman Ali settled in the UK in the 1920s and changed his name to Wilfred Johnson. 02 br
00 Mr Johnson appears to have had an idyllic childhood spent, in part, on the family farm on Exmoor. 0-
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00 Often described as a buffoon, even by his admirers, his bumbling, self-deprecating persona has long made him one of the best known politicians through his appearances on TV chat shows. 02 br
02 br
00 He has the typical upper class English background of Eton public school, Oxford University and a father who is a Conservative politician. 02 br
00 But he is no stereotypical aristocrat - he was born in New York and was a US citizen until recently, his early schooling was in Brussels, he is descended from a minister in the Ottoman Empire and his children are, as he put it, a quarter Indian. 02 br
00 Nothing about the 43-year-old now given huge powers over one of the world's great cities is as straightforward as it appears. 02 br
00 His academic records prove him to have powerful intellect, while colleagues and friends attest to an equally powerful sense of ambition. 02 br
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00 His children are, as he put it, a quarter Indian. 02 br
01 b 00 What does the above mean? 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 Do the children live in an Indian quarter? There maybe an area dominated byr people of Indian origin. 02 b 02 br
00 I read that he is married with four children. 02 br
00 He is of Turkish descent. His great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, a Turkish journalist, was briefly interior minister in the government of Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. 02 br
00 His grandfather Osman Ali settled in the UK in the 1920s and changed his name to Wilfred Johnson. 02 br
00 Mr Johnson appears to have had an idyllic childhood spent, in part, on the family farm on Exmoor. 0-
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0 To me, it means one of the children's grannies is (or was) Indian. 02 br
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00 We all have two grandmothers and two grandfathers (well, from a biological point of view), so "a quarter Indian" to me means that one out of four grannies is (or was) Indian. 02 br
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00 EDIT: I forgot to advise you that you'd better wait for another opinion 05 0 010id 5
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00 We all have two grandmothers and two grandfathers (well, from a biological point of view), so "a quarter Indian" to me means that one out of four grannies is (or was) Indian. 02 br
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01 cite 10 Rotter 12 cite 10 His children are, as he put it, a quarter Indian. 12 br
11 b 10 What does the above mean? 12 b 12 br
11 b 10 Do the children live in an Indian quarter? There maybe an area dominated byr people of Indian origin. 11 font 10 Marina Johnson is half-Indian,
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