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Article: Finding a place to be: ethnic identity exploration of Asian Americans.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Many members of ethnic minorities (EMs) in the United States experience more than one culture when growing up, and face the challenge of incorporating those diverse influences into their identity. EMs that are of a different race from the dominant group ("visible minorities") may face the additional challenge of stigmatized or subordinate status (Fishman, 1991). Membership in these relatively low-status groups may have negative consequences for self-evaluation.
Tajfel and Turner (1979) have identified strategies that EMs use to cope with low group status. One strategy is to join a more positively valued group and, in the process, shed the marks of ethnic group ...