Boondocks song written and produced by Joe South. It tells the story of a young man who laments that people put him down because he was born in the boondocks. He is in love with the boss man's daughter and vows to work slavishly until, one day, he can "move from this old shack" and fit in with her society. Throughout the song, he asks that the "Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks". Boondocks The boondocks is an American expression that stems from the Tagalog word "bundók" ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area,
Austronesian hypothesis rice throughout early island Southeast Asia, this created a black hole in the hypothesis, allowing us to come to the conclusion that the language may not have spread through migrations outside of Southeast Asia. Austronesian hypothesis The Austronesian hypothesis investigates the widespread radiation of Austronesian languages and speakers out of Asia. The original hypothesis was posed by linguist Robert Blust and later articulated from an archaeological point of view by Peter Bellwood called the “Out of Taiwan” theory. Wilhelm Solheim critiques this hypothesis in his "Nusantao Model" or the “Island People” theory; and new, additional models were formed by Stephen