why Karate (Oriental Martial arts)?

[Xue Sheng]

It seems to me that many countries (ethnicities?) ha a traditional self defense martial art. France has Savate. Here is a link to more List of 180+ Martial Arts Styles - Black Belt Wiki.

It also seems to me that the family of unarmed martial arts that started in India mover to China moved to Okinawa and then Japan and eventually the world which I will collectively refer to as "family of Karate" has spread more widely than most of the others on the above list.

Why has the one group been so successful at expanding world wide, While the others on the list are mostly localized? Or am I way off base on my understanding of the unarmed self defense world?

Thanks.

Not everything you see calling itself Karate, is karate. It is just a label most people understand and gets more people to go to Your school. Same with schools saying kung fu, they all are not King Fu. There is a silat school near me calling itself karate