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Cultural Differences Between Tibetan And Han China

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In their article, Fang Yin and Heyong Shen, Yu He, Ying Wei, and Wei Cao make a cross-cultural comparison of typical dreams of “being chased” between Tibetan and Han Chinese dreamers. Using a Dream Questionnaire, in total 569 subjects were involved in the research project: 278 Tibetan and 291 Han undergraduate college students. In their results, 90% of the sample population had an occurrence of dreams that consisted of them being chased. However, what was chasing them was significantly different. Both groups had overall negative feelings after experiencing the dream, however there were noteworthy differences between the Tibetan and Han Chinese groups on the feelings of anger or other unspecified feelings. There were many other major differences as well between both groups. For example, in the dream Tibetan and Han Chinese had a difference when it came to seeking help or running away in the dream. The researchers use this significance of these differences to study the relations of the living environment and cultural …show more content…

Studies have shown prominence of themes in typical dreams but whether or not they hold a personal meaning or simply reflect emotional apprehensions are still up for debate between researchers. Based on the knowledge of reoccurring themes for dreams, a Typical Dream Questionnaire, or TDQ, was created. In order to create the TDQ, researchers did extensive investigations on particular themes and then applied cross-cultural comparisons in order to make the questions for the questionnaire. Ever since it was used, researchers have found that the answers to the questionnaire are widely different between

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