Many groups arrived in the United States as indentured servants or searching for work. Some groups that fall under this definition in the early history of the area are the Irish, Chinese, Mexicans, and later on groups from almost every nation in the world that worked their way into the United States
and Canada for various reasons. North American society is usually termed a melting pot of cultures, however it is actually more like a puzzle society, having micro communities that keep their cultural identity within the body of a
larger American Anglo-Saxon culture.