By the time Maria Teresa was in middle school, all of her friends were European American and she told everyone she was a foreign exchange student. What stage of Chicano/Latino identity development does this represent?

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Maria Teresa's behavior of distancing herself from her ethnic identity and attempting to fit in with her European American peers by claiming to be a foreign exchange student reflects the Consequence stage of Chicano/Latino identity development. This stage involves dealing with the outcomes of internalized racism and possibly rejecting one's cultural background to assimilate or be accepted by the dominant culture.

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