Sociology

The racial cultural identity development model is a model that is used in racial identity. This model consists of five stages conformity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection and integrative awareness (Sue  Sue, 2007). In this case, this model will break down the identity formation of Hispanics into the above five stages, in which the Hispanics goes from conforming to the dominant group, to rebelling against this group, to a place where neither rebellion or conformity is needed to feel complete. The dominant group of particular mention is the Americans.

Discussion
The conformity stage
In this stage, a Latino completely adopts the dominant cultures customs and beliefs. A Latino rejects the personality of his or her own culture and views them with disregard. This stage has the most intense negative impact on Latino as they experience low confidence because of not being a part of the American culture. Therefore, they adapt to the dominant cultures values and customs and disregard their own.

The Latinos residing in America are compromised of Hispanics from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and others. The Latinos from Puerto Rico reside mainly in the city of New York, and in this stage because of the disregard of their culture, they refer themselves as Nuricos.

In this stage, the Latinos will not interact with their counterparts as they are conforming to the dominant group, therefore they will try to fit in the footsteps of the dominant group. For example, the Latinos will result to speaking in English a lot instead of their usual language, which is Spanish. They will discriminate others of another minority as they try to view themselves as the members of the dominant group.

The dissonance stage
This stage is characterized by conflicting observations and messages that are not consistence with ones view of ones culture and main culture. This lack of consistency leads a person to question the beliefs from the previous stage-Conformity stage (Sue, 2006). Therefore, the movement in this stage is slow but sure, though traumatic situations such assassination of a significant leader can drive a person into this stage.

In reference to the Hispanic culture, the Hispanics who were already settled in America started to question some of beliefs in the American culture. Because of suffering from discrimination from the dominant group especially because of their language, they start to question their identity. They also start to relate better with the members of their minority groups as they see that they have some things in common with them such as, they can speak the same language, Spanish. The Latinos at this stage will view the majority group with a little contempt, because of the discrimination. They start to relate with other minority groups such as they are of the view that they are facing the same problems like them.

The resistance and immersion stage
At this stage, a person will clinch his or her cultures values as beliefs completely and reject those of the dominant culture. In this stage, there are three qualities that are displayed by people as they resist the oppression, their groups has faced by the dominant group. These are shame, guilt and doubt. The customs and values that were once viewed as being shameful, have now become symbols of pride and honor (Sue  Sue, 2007).

The Latinos will start to value their culture and snub the culture of the dominant group because of doubt, shame and guilt of snubbing their culture. They start to view other members of their group as brothers and sisters. They start to understand others of another minority and become friendly to them. They disintegrate from the dominant group completely, and may start to form associations or partnerships with other fellow Latinos, as a way to better interact with them. 

The introspection stage
According to (Lee, 2007), people realize the intense nature of the feelings associated in the previous stage and how those feelings obstruct the growth of self-identity. Additionally, cognitive difference occurs in that negative views of the dominant group from the resistance stage are challenged by experience. In this stage, a person tries to comprehend him or herself better and attempts to become more intent about the cultures attitudes and views, and endeavors to incorporate the values of both the dominant and minority group.

In relation to the Latinos, they try to understand their culture and become more intent on incorporating the positive values of the dominant group as well as their own culture. They will start to collaborate with their fellow Latinos and may even start partnerships or business associations, where they will integrate the positive values of the dominant group, as well as their own into their business endeavors.   
The integrative awareness stage
This is the final stage of this model and a person develops positive self-esteem and can now be grateful for the distinctive characteristics of their culture as those characteristics of the American culture. Instead of observing the difference between a persons culture and that of the dominant group, a person apprehends that there are tolerable and intolerable factors from both. There is a strong yearning to end all forms of tyranny that exists in a person.

At this stage, the Latinos will be confident about their culture and will be proud of the characteristics of the dominant group, which they have also integrated into their own. They view all members from minority groups with respect and understanding, and they have an urge to end all forms of oppression that they previously had and practiced. They also try to interact with the dominant group on the same level and may even start to do thing like co-owning businesses with them.

Conclusion
In this case, the racial cultural identity development model was used to break down the identity formation of the Latino group into five stages, in which the Latinos go from conforming to the American culture, to rebelling against this conformity, to a place where rebellion and conformity is not needed for the Latinos to feel wholly complete.

Initially, the Latinos integrated to the American culture and disregarded their own culture. They viewed their culture with contempt and disdain and tried to assimilate to the dominant culture.  Then at the second stage, they started to question their identity. At the resistance stage, they appreciate their culture and members of the same group while rejecting the American culture. At the Introspection stage, the Latinos differentiates, individual views realize the fact that negative feelings about a culture can negatively hamper self- identity. At the final stage, the Latinos appreciate both cultures, that is their own as well as the American culture. They even try to integrate the two cultures together and hoping that the outcome will be positive.