It’s pretty common knowledge by now that X-Cube in Taichung does not allow white male foreigners through its doors. You only need read the reviews on Google Maps both old and new to see that this practise continues.
The club’s official reasoning is stated within a news article from 2023 which blew up with a ton of views (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/4772831) but no feasible response from the authorities regarding what is clear and blatant racial discrimination. Their reasoning is (translated from Mandarin):
"In our experience of receiving guests, there have been too many incidents of tall, white males losing control after drinking. Our staff has suffered from an inability to mediate, and we currently have insufficient security personnel to deal with these situations.
"Therefore, to avoid unpleasant conflicts, we have decided not to allow people of this demographic into our club for the time being. Further, (men) of European or American ethnicity are overly enthusiastic in their efforts to party with (Taiwanese) girls. In many cases, their enthusiasm and physical actions are perceived as harassment by Taiwanese women.
"This often leads to physical altercations with the male Taiwanese guests accompanying (the women). I believe you can understand this point well enough.
"In fact, we have not discriminated against white European or American males (in the past). We have tried our best to serve every patron of our business, but our staff has become physically and mentally exhausted.
"We hope that your publicity will help the public understand our decision. Additionally, some of our club’s new signage was recently destroyed by people belonging to the group mentioned above.
“Their destructive tendencies are too strong. That is why we will no longer receive white European and American men as guests at our establishment.”
Now, I would actually be inclined to sympathize if this were actually the case. But all of this is clearly smoke and mirrors for the real issue at hand - whoever owns and operates this club acts above the law and in plain sight. X-Cube has had previous trouble for gang related fights and many of their google reviews also state other blatant criminal acts - such as tricking guests of their club into thinking that they broke the ‘key’ to their locker to extort money from them (read several reviews on Google and you’ll see this is common).
The club is well known for violent crimes and the occasional police raid (when things get bad?) as this article shows: 中市夜店X-CUBE廿七日凌晨驚傳大混戰 – 指傳媒
Another article: 台中「X-CUBE」夜店大亂鬥案 「鴨店」老闆幹的 - 社會 - 自由時報電子報
More recently, the club decided to deface Taiwan bank notes and distribute them as advertisements, to the distain of the normal law abiding Taiwan citizen.
These gangsters have also recently opened a new club called X-Cute in Kaohsiung, which operates the same policy (no white men or white people in general, according to their recent google reviews).
Laws openly and continuously broken:
Immigration Act: Article 62 prohibits discrimination against individuals residing in Taiwan based on nationality, race, color, class, or place of birth. Violators may be fined between NT$5,000 and NT$30,000 if they fail to rectify discriminatory behavior after being notified.
( Additionally, Taiwan has taken steps to align with international standards by implementing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). In 2013, the Presidential Office Human Rights Consultative Committee resolved to enforce ICERD domestically, recognizing its applicability due to Taiwans prior approval before withdrawing from the United Nations.)
In Taiwan, defacing or intentionally damaging currency is prohibited by law. According to Article 5 of the Penal Act of Offenses Against National Currency individuals who deliberately damage coins or banknotes, rendering them unusable, may be fined up to five times the nominal value of the affected currency.
It would be great to understand the general public’s opinions regarding this, especially those who have a good understanding of Taiwan. There is clearly a fundamental flaw in the system.
