Editing Boondocks (section)

==Origins==
The expression was introduced to [[American English]] by [[U.S. military]] personnel fighting in the [[Philippine–American War]] (1899–1902).<ref>{{cite book | last = Clay | first = Grady | title = Real Places | publisher=University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-226-10949-7 |pages=180–181 |chapter=Boondocks |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfmnW94LS7YC&q=boondocks&pg=PA180}}</ref><ref name=kramer>{{cite book | last = Kramer | first = Paul | title = The Blood of Government | publisher=University of North Carolina Press | location = Chapel Hill | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-8078-5653-6 |pages=33–34}}</ref> It derives from the [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] word "''bundók''",<ref group="note">From [[Proto-Malayo-Polynesian]] ''*bunduk'' ("higher ground"), ultimately from [[Proto-Austronesian]] ''*bunduk'' ("higher ground")</ref> which means "[[mountain]]".<ref>{{cite book | last = Heller | first = Louis | title = The Private Lives of English Words | publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul | location = London | year = 1984 | isbn = 978-0-7102-0006-8 |page=20 |chapter=boondocks |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KI9AAAAIAAJ&q=boondocks&pg=PA20}}</ref><ref name=brock>{{cite web|last=Brock|first=Emily K.|title= Emily K. Brock. Bundok—Filipino|url=http://www.environmentandsociety.org/content/bundok-filipino|work=Environment & Society Portal|publisher=Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society|access-date=21 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="bunduk">{{cite web |author=Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel|title=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bunduk |url=http://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-s_b.htm#25702 |website=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary |access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref> According to [[military historian]] Paul A. Kramer, the term originally had "connotations of bewilderment and [[confusion]]", due to the [[guerrilla warfare]] in which the soldiers were engaged.<ref name=kramer/>

In the [[Philippines]], the word ''bundók'' is also a [[colloquialism]] referring to rural inland areas, which are usually mountainous and difficult to access, as most major cities and settlements in the Philippines are located in lowlands or near the coastline.<ref name=brock/> Equivalent terms include the [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-derived ''probinsiya'' ("province") and the [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]] term ''bukid'' ("mountain").<ref group="note">From [[Proto-Austronesian]] ''*bukij'' ("mountain", "forested inland mountain areas")</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120724200801/http://www.dailymirror.ph/Dec/opinion12162009&03.html "What A English" by Jon Joaquin.]</ref><ref name="bukij">{{cite web |author=Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel|title=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bukij |url=http://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-s_b.htm#25647 |website=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary |access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref> When used generally, the term refers to a mountainous area with a connotation of being rustic or uncivilized. When referring to people ({{lang|tl|taga-bundok}} or {{lang|tl|probinsiyano}} in Tagalog; {{lang|ceb|taga-bukid}} in Cebuano; English: "someone who comes from the mountains/provinces"), it is sometimes used to connote a [[stereotype]] of [[Naivety|naive]] or [[Peasant|boorish]] countryside dwellers.