Guests not welcome.

Are there any "guest "unfriendly insular culture anywhere in modern world ? Like not giving food to a visitor , or locals barring entry to outsiders ?

There are still some bathhouses in rural Japan that won’t allow foreigners.

In Southern Utah / Northern Arizona there are a few towns where almost everybody is a Mormon polygamist and they don’t want outsiders around. You can drive through but I don’t think there is anything there to stop for outside of gas.

Mecca is pretty unfriendly unless your Muslim.

Unless your Muslim what?

Is it that they still belive in them being "pure breed " ?

…comes with you. :smiley:

Really? I’m interested in knowing more about this.

Only Muslims are allowed into Mecca.

The Sentinelese are pretty adamant about not welcoming visitors.

You could try driving through my home town with out of state plates.

A few years back I seem to recall a map of Jamaica that had a largely unmarked area on it labeled something to the effect of “you no come here”. Can’t find it now.

As a connoisseur of unfriendly places, some stand out especially.

1985, cars in LA still bore the stickers from the previous year’s Olympics *“Welcome to California. Now go home.” *

1990 Ukranian Village, Chicago. Stocky, angry old white guys standing in their front yards keeping watch out for Black kids.

1991 Wainae on the west coast of Oahu. There were people who were born there who’d never been as far as Honolulu. Not a good place to be Caucasian after dark.

1994 Seattle. Stay out of the commercial fishermen’s bars. If your car breaks down and you have to use the phone, find the nearest crack house instead.

Time and events have probably changed all these by now, though.

Israel, apparently.

Some parts of Quebec, depending on skin color:

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As a connoisseur of unfriendly places, some stand out especially.QUOTE]
This is why I love the dope !

That guy’s not a foreigner. And it’s definitely possible that he was a victim of racial profiling, but his claim that he was targeted because “his name didn’t match his skin colour” has got to be bullshit, since you’ll find plenty of black people with French names.

According to a 2008 government survey, 27 percent of hotels in Japan said they didn’t want any foreign customers at all.

:eek:

There are some Aboriginal communities in outback Australia that deny entry to visitors except with a locally-endorsed permit.
Oh, and from personal experience, a town called Cann River in Victoria must rank up there as one of the most ‘Fuck Off’ places ever. It’s on Highway 1 in Aus, and one must travel through it to get places…take my advice and never stop there.

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