Well written...The monkey see, monkey do sounds funny. Lolzz
We are really often influenced by what we see, hear and basically what we feed out minds with.
I read a story somewhere and I am going to share it with you to further buttress your point here.
A hospital decided to carry out a study on the response of people to crowd influence and they decided to set up cameras in the reception. They put a lady there and asked the lady to stand up and sit down each time she hears the bell ring from the room behind them which happens to be the doctor's office.
She was one of the actors and did just as she was told. The First person worked in and sat down. When the bell rang, the actor stood up and sat down. The patient looked In amazment but didn't say anything. The bell rang again and and the actor stood and sat. The woman became quite uncomfortable and when the bell rang the third time, without asking question she stood and sat too. Another patient came in , saw the two people in the reception standing and sitting at the ring if the bell and he followed suite without asking questions and this continued. Each patient would come in and keep doing the same thing with others and at a point the actor was called away and the rest continued standing and sitting wihlthout knowing the reason for doing so.
This is basically the world we live in. We tend to do what we see others do just In the name of trying to belong or feel among.
We can chose to follow the crowd or be unique...for me, the later is what I choose.