# Guests not welcome. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725 "2010-09-14T14:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/1 "2010-09-14T14:33:01Z")
Are there any "guest "unfriendly insular culture anywhere in modern world ? Like not giving food to a visitor , or locals barring entry to outsiders ? ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/2 "2010-09-14T15:27:14Z")
There are still some bathhouses in rural Japan that won’t allow foreigners. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/3 "2010-09-14T15:30:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/4 "2010-09-14T15:36:08Z")
Mecca is pretty unfriendly unless your Muslim. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/5 "2010-09-14T15:39:43Z")
Unless your Muslim what? ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/6 "2010-09-14T16:14:33Z")
> [@nikonikosuru](#): > > There are still some bathhouses in rural Japan that won’t allow foreigners. Is it that they still belive in them being "pure breed " ? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/7 "2010-09-14T16:19:13Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Unless your Muslim what? …comes with you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/8 "2010-09-14T16:54:38Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Mecca is pretty unfriendly unless your Muslim. Really? I’m interested in knowing more about this. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/9 "2010-09-14T16:59:47Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > > [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > > > Mecca is pretty unfriendly unless your Muslim. > > Really? I’m interested in knowing more about this. Only Muslims are allowed into Mecca. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/10 "2010-09-14T19:43:25Z")
The [Sentinelese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people) are pretty adamant about not welcoming visitors. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/11 "2010-09-14T20:11:09Z")
You could try driving through my home town with out of state plates. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/12 "2010-09-14T22:27:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/13 "2010-09-14T23:28:18Z")
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.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_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. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/14 "2010-09-14T23:48:27Z")
[Israel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578219), apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/15 "2010-09-15T00:46:23Z")
[Some parts of Quebec](http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100728/mtl_profiling_100728/20100728/?hub=MontrealHome), depending on skin color: > [@](#): > > Debellefeuille paid for the expired insurance ticket, but decided to contest the refusal to provide ID ticket in municipal court. > > When he saw the police report a year later, he took his case directly to the Centre for Research on Race Relations. > > The report clearly showed racial discrimination, said Adrienne Gibson of CRARR. > > “(The report stated) he was a black man, and it didn’t correspond to the owner because ‘Debellefeuille’ is a Quebecois name,” she said. > > “The people have to know what is being said or what is being written on the back of the tickets. If I didn’t fight it, I wouldn’t have any idea,” said Debellefeuille. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/16 "2010-09-15T01:25:27Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] **_As a connoisseur of unfriendly places_,** some stand out especially.QUOTE] This is why I love the dope ! ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/17 "2010-09-15T08:06:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Some parts of Quebec](http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100728/mtl_profiling_100728/20100728/?hub=MontrealHome), depending on skin color: 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. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/18 "2010-09-15T08:50:12Z")
According to a 2008 government survey, 27 percent of hotels in Japan said they didn’t want any foreign customers at all. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/19 "2010-09-15T10:09:05Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > According to a 2008 government survey, 27 percent of hotels in Japan said they didn’t want any foreign customers at all. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725/20 "2010-09-15T10:33:36Z")
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. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guests-not-welcome/553725.md?page=2)