In the 1800s, Europeans discovered Saartjie Baartman, a South African Bushman woman. They called her the Hottentot Venus and exploited her primarily because of her physical and cultural differences. Hottentot, Khoisan, San and Bushmen are all common names for the group of indigenous people to which she belonged. These people have largely been viewed by Western society as "part human, part animal savages" and considered "the lowest rung on the ladder of human development." This one-sided but widespread notoriety has existed since the 1800s and many of the Bushmen's commonplace conceptions have remained unchanged throughout modern history. This article will be a general overview of Bushmen culture. It will describe some of its complexities and also note how early Europeans and anthropologists viewed these South African peoples. This article will not provide an in-depth historical account or comprehensive research on the culture, but is a proposal to present Bushmen culture as one that has much to appreciate. The Bushmen have a unique language which is characterized by the use of clicks in their speech. This feature is exclusive to the Bushmen peoples and some other southern Bantu languages. These clicks can be described as “in-mouth” because the sounds are produced by variations in mouth movements that allow air to pass into the mouth. To produce such clicks, one must use the lips, alveolar ridge (the ridge behind the teeth of the upper jaw), tongue, teeth, cheek and palate. Because this language is different from all other languages ​​in the world, linguists have made many attempts to translate these sounds into written language, often using symbols to express them. The fact that...... middle of article ......avid Chidester et al., African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), 69.David Lewis- Williams & Sam Challis, Deciphering Ancient Spirits: The Mystery of San Rock Art, 35.David Chidester et al., Traditional African Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, 68.David Lewis-Williams and Sam Challis , Deciphering Ancient Spirits: The Mystery of San Rock Art, 193.David Chidester et al., Traditional African Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, 69.David Chidester et al., Traditional African Religion in South Africa : an annotated bibliography, 70.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old Way (New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2006), 294.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old Way, 294.David Lewis-Williams and Sam Challis, Deciphering Ancient Minds: the mystery of San's rock art, 36.