MIKEinNYC - a small observation. It is not the case that all other people ("ethnic group") came her voluntarily. Individual Africans came here involuntarily, and today many come voluntarily. 500 years ago, I suppose all Africans came here involuntarily, but some may well have come voluntarily. While many Europeans came voluntarily, many Europeans ("white") came here involuntarily, as either indentured servants or de facto slaves. We don't know enough about immigrations into America thousands of years ago, that produced the "Native Americans". However, it is unlikely given Indian culture over the past 500 to 1000 years, that all of those earliest immigrants came here voluntarily. It seems more likely that entire tribes were forced, involuntarily, either to flee or to fight their way here.