An American-born-Chinese youth only speaks English at school with her peers and only speaks Chinese at home with her parents. According to symbolic interactionlism, the individual is in the ______ of the emergence of self.

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The reference group stage is the stage in which the individual is in the process of developing a self-concept. This stage is characterized by the individual's interaction with others and the development of a sense of self in relation to others.

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