> at the time, he [Linneaus] was probably mostly thinking of “white European cultures”

How boring this is, makes me want to close the page immediately.

The guy, Linneaus, lived in the 1700s and “white European cultures” were all there was to him. Us wasn’t even a whole nation yet and there wasn’t much scientific cooperation with other civilisations.

Also, at the time latin was the lingua franca for the scientific world.

Stop judging people by the customs of their time, it’s a moronic endeavour.