George is a seventeen year-old who is very comfortable with his ethnic and cultural background. His parents are from Greece and speak very little English. When George first moved to the United States in eighth grade, he had an accent when he spoke English, and he wasn't sure whether to talk about his Greek roots or hide from them. Now George's English is almost flawless, and he enjoys telling his
friends what words mean in Greek. He often shares stories and memories from his childhood experiences growing up in a town a few miles from Athens. Using Jean Phinney's 3-stage model of ethnic identity formation, describe George's stage of ethnic identity.
What will be an ideal response?
According to Phinney, children progress through the ethnic identity stages of unexamined and moratorium (or search), as they approach achieved or committed. By late adolescence, most individuals reach the committed stage, which can be observed in their strong feelings of affirmation and belonging to their ethnic group. George is in the achieved or committed stage. He is secure in his personal, social, and ethnic identity. He is not searching for his ethnic identity or trying to hide it. He embraces it, telling stories and using his knowledge of the Greek language.
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