Busch Gardens uses some terms that are meant to give an African theme but in fact can lead to stereotypes. One of these is of Pygmies. Pygmies live in the forests of Africa in small villages but that is about where the consistency ends (Turnbull, 61).  For one, a Pygmy village would not be made of  immovable electrified structures. As a hunter-gatherer (and sometimes pastoral when the various governments don't take their livestock) people the pygmies move around in relation to their resources. Also Pygmy villages cannot be lumped into one type of village. Although their actual numbers are small (+/- 40,000 in the 60's[Turnbull])they have great cultural diversity. Pygmies have several different lingual dialects and also design their villages based on hunting techniques. So is this village a spear hunting village, of about 6 families or is it a net hunting village of 12-15 families? There is no way to know by way of Busch Gardens; the public are aware that there are people called Pygmies in Africa, but it apparently doesn't matter to Busch Gardens how these people are presented to the public. Besides this, many of the shops in the Pygmy village are geared towards children. If one looks out across the "Pygmy Village" there will be plenty of people under 5' tall, this may lead to the idea that pygmies are childlike and primitive.