The west faced
similar social barriers as the South.
<span>Chinese immigrants had come to the West in search for jobs in association
with the Transcontinental Railroad. Due to their differences in manners, customs,
and wage expectations, they were met with discriminatory laws and riots. </span>
there was a fossils of a linguistic rule that was active in an earlier period, or in a language from which the words were borrowed, or they might arise by sheer chance.