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As a white male it must be quite strange to receive the same treatment as Hispanics, Blacks and middle Eastern people in predominantly white countries.
Generally the solution to problem customers is bouncers and in more serious cases police, sounds suspicious. >

There's an upper-limit to the number of bouncers you can hire before it starts being unprofitable, and from the article it appears that -- even when they charged a cover -- they hit that limit.
It sucks when a bunch of violent white thugs spoil it for everyone else, but then again, maybe if the violent white thugs weren't tolerated by other white people (i.e.self-policing), then white people wouldn't be excluded en-masse. >

The bar itself said it had inadequate security, so that's an easy problem to fix. People of all races can cause trouble when drunk. Are they saying black American males are welcome, but not white. What about Hispanic male Americans?
This isn't good PR for a country that relies on Western defence agreements. It's also clearly illegal, so a weird policy. >

Don't think the US doesn't have an ulterior motives for the "defense".  Oil or geopolitical power is the name of the game.  If you don't have either, you're SOL.  Just ask Myanmar. >

Yes, Taiwan is well known for its vast oil fields and geopolitical power. >

Wow, this hits home. I lived in Taichung for 4 years about a decade ago. I've actually been to this bar a few times, but never had issues there. There is definitely a weird vibe in Taichung bars, for some reason. I always heard stories about gangsters taking offence that some white guy had tried to dance with one of their girlfriends and beating the hell out of every foreigner in the bar as a result. "White guys cause problems" might be the other side of the story, though. I doubt the bar will be able to get away with this for long. >

Generally the solution to problem customers is bouncers and in more serious cases police, sounds suspicious. >

The club come across in the article as if they are bsing because they swing from its for the protection of white men to its because they are violent back to its for their protection.
Reading between the lines it looks like some of the local regulars just don't like white men in the club, who knows why but from a business perspective your bread and butter are you regulars so obviously you appease them up to the point where it no longer makes sense financially, the wishy washy story is probably a result of them not expecting to be called up on it.
Thing is if a local night club or bar where I live tried to ban any group for reason of ethnicity theyd be screwed and rightly so problem individuals can easily be barred from the premises. >

When I was in Korea,  I walked into an establishment and everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at me.   The lady at the door pushed me back out the door and said no Americans I understand there are some businesses like this they just don’t want foreigners in their businesses.   That’s fine it could have been for their or my safety that I was not allowed there.  I don’t really care if I as a white guy am not allowed somewhere no need to get my feathers ruffled I just pretend that the place does not exist and go about my life.  Why get upset because a business doesn’t want us there.