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meme ( ) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". A meme acts as a unit for carrying
cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to
genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to
selective pressures.