It is in the youngest children that one can see the process of imitation most clearly at work. A four-year-old boy in Florida looked through his brother's comic books, and his mother found him under a tree stark naked, with a long knife in his hands. Stunned, she asked him why he had undressed himself, and what he was doing. He replied, "The man in the comics did it."
Later he showed her pictures where some Mongols" had a white man stripped naked and one of them had a long knife to cut out the American's tongue.