No immigrant who has come to America has had an easy beginning.  The difficulties are reflected in learning a different language with its mind-boggling idioms, understanding a new culture, and ultimately needing to be self-sufficient.  Often education in the immigrant's country is insufficient or completely lacking.  Even those who are well educated in their birth country need to return to school to become properly licensed according to American standards.    Yet "[b]etween 1850 and 1930, about one million Asians from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and India came to the United States. But by the second half of the 19th century a backlash had developed [.]"  The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act created increasingly restrictive laws against Asians.  At one point, a law passed by the California State Legislature and signed by the governor created a $50 tax per head for Chinese entering Californian ports that was to be paid within...(Read Full Article)