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 related to factors of population, growth, and instability of agriculture. There is no archaeological evidence which allows us to view trade as a major factor of early Austronesian language expansion. One of the most prevalent theories states that the Austronesian speakers moved south from Taiwan and through the Philippines and Indonesia. Later, they crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans into Madagascar and Hawaii. This is called the “Out-of-Taiwan” model. In this theory, Bellwood argues that the movement of people from Taiwan had a significant impact on culture, language, and people as the language spread. He also states that individual islands