Expanding a bit from this comment, any set of actors will exhibit certain emergent properties (culture etc, if you will) , which is strictly speaking independen

Expanding a bit from this comment, any set of actors will exhibit certain emergent properties (culture etc, if you will) , which is strictly speaking independent from any of the actor themselves. Are we actually sure that the "imprint" becomes individual characteristics, or is everyone behaving similar just because the society/culture at large is making everyone to be acting that way.