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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
China as a whole was technologically similar, that's not to say that every Chinese person was up to date on things. Monks aren't known for being cutting edge educated after all.
And of course, none of that affects what racist Westerners think about foreign Asians.
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Certainly but there is difference between a Monk who isolated is artificially by a vocation peculiar to him and someone who naturally comes from a primitive TL. Just as there is a difference between a bonsai tree and a tree naturally growing in such a shape. A Shaolin monk's lifestyle should be thought of as a form of art not as someone naturally unfamiliar with the world.
Which is not to say that he is or is not familiar with firearms. For that one would have to know more about his background. In any case he would be no more likely to be unfamiliar in China then in the West.