Abroad - Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism - NYTimes.com

Abroad - Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism - NYTimes.com: "What’s new is the power available to wide swaths of the populace, thanks above all to cheap travel and the Web, to become actors in the production and dissemination of culture, not simply consumers. A generation or more ago, aside from what people did in their home or from what’s roughly called folk or outsider art, culture was generally thought of as something handed down from on high, which the public received."