BG1 never fully embraced the forgotten realms campaign environment hence monks, kensai and so on seem out of place. There are (I believe) other so called 'oriental' classes you can play in the pnp version that have been left out of BG2 which tries to mirror forgotten realms more accurately.
Incidently you all seem to be looking at BG2 from a Europe/Asia/USA standpoint this is a fantasy world after all and there is nothing to stop cultures which lived thousands of miles away from each other in our world coexisting in Faerun.
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