MA as a meme

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Meme: the following extract from Wikipedia defines it as follows:
'Dawkins used the term to refer to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator. He hypothesised that one could view many cultural entities as replicators, and pointed to melodies, fashions and learned skills as examples. Memes generally replicate through exposure to humans, who have evolved as efficient copiers of information and behaviour. Because humans do not always copy memes perfectly, and because they may refine, combine or otherwise modify them with other memes to create new memes, they can change over time. Dawkins likened the process by which memes survive and change through the evolution of culture to the natural selection of genes in biological evolution'
I find it interesting how a meme spreads and burrows into a culture, eventually becoming an intrinsic part of it. Baseball for example started to become popular in the 1850's now it is an integral part of the culture. Martial arts, apart from the noble art of boxing is a recent addition. Go back to the 40's and the arts we take for granted were asian esoteric disciplines, even as late as the 60's Kung Fu was largely unknown. Now MA schools are common, the expansion of MMA is making it an American art rather than a transplant, taking on new forms and interpretation.