Sometimes you just over analysis

Back when I first arrived (pretty well 3 weeks ago now! where has the time gone...) I went to the Sunday night service. I had been in the country for a whole two days so I was pretty... not on edge, but highly observant of everything around me, sensing the differences and all of that. I go to get a bulletin from the back and I notice that they are in two colours. Red and blue I do believe. So as I walk up to them, I wonder, does this mean anything? Am I suppose to take a certain bulletin? I couldn't see any sign, and the people coming into the service didn't seem to be taking the bulletin's in any perceivable pattern, so I grabbed a blue one and carried on. Now as you could most likely figure out, there was no importance to the bulletins, it was merely that it was the paper they had in the office and decided to us it. They are usually white, but I guess they wanted to use up that paper or something like that. I think sometimes we get so over analytical of what is going on in a culture that we are unfamiliar with that we think that everything has some form of deep meaning attached to it. Perhaps I have it worse then most because of my many years in academia, or my training in intercultural studies, but I think sometimes we need to remember Occam's Razor: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best. Or at least often the best one. Many things that happen here are buried in meaning and tradition and even those who have lived here for many years are still trying to figure out why certain things happen, but other things, really it comes down to the fact that we are all human and thus we all share some of the same impulses, desires and so forth, so it certainly makes sense that sometimes we're all going to do things in a similar fashion. Also with globalization, a similar surface culture is spreading world wide and especially in business circles, some things are becoming universal. Like trying to save money on paper. So this is something that the intrepid traveler needs to be aware of. You have to distinguish between the cultural and the a-cultural. That with deep meaning and that with no meaning - its just something that to solve a problem and can be changed with no problem. Now figuring out the difference between those two things adds a whole new layer to the intercultural experience.