Of course this is racism, and it is not so much on the part of the guards as it is their employers. I have never seen a single Qatari or white man turned away on "family day" anywhere here. At the same time, the gender imbalance here is so great that if they opened up places like the Villagio to all the male workers, the place would be overrun and not a place where my wife would be comfortable shopping.

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."