When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films w — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

— Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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