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It's part of the story, the kids aside from Charlie all got there tickets by unfairly playing the system.
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I mean, one of them was German, and other than that it appeared to be a mix of British and American kids. >

Exactly. Put some respect on our bilingual king Augustus Gloop’s name OP! 🍫🇩🇪 >

Fun fact! Did you know the actress who played his mother (Save some room for later!) was in a porn right around that time? >

I didn't believe you, so I checked.  This appears to be true! >

I mean Michael Scott tried this and all the tickets went to the same company. >

Omg maybe that episode was really just to shine light on the fact that there is a reason that all the tickets wound up going to the same demographic >

Not really sure I’d consider Charlie Bucket and Veruca Salt as the same demographic. >

Presumably old mate got confused between demographic and age bracket >

Age is a demographic btw >

Ok. In the story, only Augustus Gloop and Mike Teavee are the same age (9), everyone else is a different age.
But why is it surprising that the main characters of a Roald Dahl Story are children? That’s kind of the point of all his children’s novels. 
There is also almost always an element of magic, or at least the unexplained-possibly-paranormal in his books. In the novel, adults around the world searched like crazy for those tickets, but of course Wonka knows children will be the recipients because his factory, and indeed his candies, are made for children, and their imaginations. The tickets themselves were intended for children, never an adult.
The real convenience of it all lies in the the book being written for a target audience, and that audience is children… therefore, characters they relate to. >

I wasn’t inherently disagreeing with you (I was responding to the person above who assumed you didn’t think age is a demographic), you can narrow the age demographic to whatever you want. I’d consider “children” to be a general age demographic, but if you want to split it up, that’s fair. 
Until your response, I didn’t think you were referring to their age, but other points of their demographic profile (SES, culture, location, etc). >

I’m sorry, I misunderstood! You are right in thinking I wasn’t referring to their age, btw. I agree they all fit an age demographic, but that’s hardly relevant compared to the social statuses Dahl has created for them. >

It's also incredibly convenient that Wonka's creepy-looking henchman was at the right time and place when all of them were discovered. Almost as if they were planted. >

Well there was nothing "incredibly convenient" about the winners being English speakers. That was about 99% of the UK at the time. >

Because the only place willy wonkas factory shipped to was within the United Kingdoms borders? >

Except in the film (never read the book) it was implied Wonka’s chocolates shipped out all over the world. I mean, Augustus Gloop was Austrian/German.
But yeah, the fact that it was all children who got it would be statistically improbable. >

Meh, more kids buy candy than adults, and every year there are more kids than adults. >

Right, but the candy wasn’t the main prize. You got a lifetime supply of chocolate which could be sold hand over fist, which I’m sure plenty of adults considered in their quest to find the golden tickets. And plus an exclusive tour of the world’s most mysterious and profitable candy company would almost truly be a once in a lifetime event, and you’re telling me some rich celebrity wouldn’t swoop in and offer any one of those children $10mil cash for the golden ticket, just to have the prestige of going to Wonka’s factory? Just doesn’t add up. >

True >

Happy Cake Day, Jan >

Happy what? >

It’s your cake day. Hence the little cake icon next to your username. >

It's because the thing was rigged from the start. Willy Wonka had no children of his own, so he was specifically looking for an heir to take over his empire. >

And a few to murder. >

As you do >

As is tradition >

As You Were - LG >

Considering the children were all horrible can you think of the uproar on what nationality gets what arsehole behaviour. >

I got the impression that Wonka had pretty elaborate plans for the kids, and selected them specifically to teach them lessons? >

Exactly. He chose Charlie, it was just the final test. >

In the gene wilder version, the candy store salesman admits he was hiding Wonka bars while they were auctioning for extreme prices.   Why would a man in the business of selling candy for profit do that?  Then, it's not until charlie says he wants to buy something for his grandfather that the candy seller chooses the type of bar for him, and that bar has the golden ticket.    
He knew he had it, and was intentionally holding it for somebody who wasn't buying for themselves. >

Charlie & the chocolate factory Lore >

Reminds me of how in Boruto, the main ladies of Naruto took a collective pregnancy pact to birth children in the same year. >

What the fuck >

That's not literally what happened.
The naruto cast just had children in the same class at the start of boruto. Which makes kind of sense because Naruto ends with a giant war and those make people have children historically but it's also obviously to have a story in which all the original characters are involved through their children.
But it's also so obviously contrived that people joke they all made a pact to get pregnant at the same time because otherwise it's too convenient that they all have children at close to the same age. >

The kids of Boruto are literal baby boomers >

The book is set in 1960s England… What else would they speak? >

Are you implying minorities didn't exist back in the 60s? Especially after the war? >

No, they're implying that in a book written in English and probably set in either England or America, the characters all speaking English is not at all surprising. >

You're completely missing out on OP's point by trying to be a contrarian >

No, I'm pointing out that it's a children's book that was written in English and set in a country where English is by far the most commonly spoken language. So the fact that the main characters are mostly children who speak English is not surprising at all. Disagreeing is not the same as being contrarian. >

You are missing out on OP's point >

Please do tell, o enlightened one! What point am I missing exactly? >

Or maybe they just didn’t ship the golden ticket chocolate bars to other countries… 
I doubt there we’re many people living in England who speak no English back in those days >

Augustus Gloop was German, though? I mean, maybe he was a German immigrant who moved to England, but I was always under the impression that he lived in Germany based on his and his parents' accents. >

And I thought Mike was the American. What with all the cowboy gear. Could be from anywhere I guess. >

You are seeking logic in a movie where a piece of gum turns a girl into a blueberry… let that sink in >

"I do say, that song & dance all seemed a bit rehearsed!" (Best line from the remake.) >

TLDW - 
Between 12% and 24%
The range is caused when the definition of “white person/English speaking” is changed >

I'll bet when you consider that globalization want a thing in the 1920s and you eliminate basically all of Asia, Africa, and South America considering an American candy company's distribution network. The British kid was from a wealthy family who spent insane amounts of money to find a ticket. 
The the German kid is the most odd to me. How popular has American chocolate ever been in Germany? I'm guessing that is not very popular and that since his family only seemed relatively well off, a trip to America may have been a prohibitive expense due nothing more than a candy factory tour.
Edit: TIL that the story took place in England (definitely at the forefront of globalization, even in the 1920s). So, that pretty much destroys the logic of my argument. >

Kid was also a chubster who inhaled sweets like air. >

To be fair English speaking countries tend to be richer therefore more kids there will buy more chocolate and therefore are more likely to get the tickets (Eg. Veruca buying hundreds of chocolates will give her a higher probability of landing a golden ticket than Charlie who can only afford one). 
But yeah the fact that they’re children makes it rigged. Like I’m sure a teenager or even an adult would’ve gotten one because they bought chocolates too not just the kids. >

What's strange is that one of those children wasn't an English speaker in real life and just learned the few lives he had to say in English without actually understanding everything. >

I mean, it's a good way to murder your kids for insurance money and have a good alibi. >

Not that convenient as britan is a white English speaking country it would be weird if it was different is what you meant to say 🤔 >

Grandpa Joe didn't get out of bed for 20 years. He let everyone take care of him. He decided he could walk again to see Wankas chocolate factory. >

I still remember:
teacher "And all they had to eat every day was spinach"
girl sitting on floor "But I dont like spinach"
teacher looks down from book "Then you would die."
class shocked picachu face
me, in the back, cant hold back the laughter
kid next to me looks over, What's your problem? written on his fucking kid face
i cant speak... only laugh/cry >

Didn't the film theory guy on YT calculate the odds of that happening? >

Augustus Gloop wasn’t English. He was German. Don’t think he talked English at all. >

It's as convenient in England during that time period as it would be today if in Mexico they had something, and all the winners spoke Spanish.  In other words, it's not suspiciously convenient at all. >

Thats all depends on where wonka sells his chocolate bars right? >

So you can suspend disbelief long enough to accept a factory with a chocolate river and candy plants but all the kids who found tickets speak the same language is just too much.. >

Of all the unreasonable events related to that story, you found the least one. >

Augustus Gloop was from Germany.
Mike Teevee was from the USA. >

I mean, it was America in the 1920s ... not a real inclusive time period. Not a lot of globalization going on in the 1920s, in America.
Edit: 1920s England it seems ... so a fair bit more globalization than I'd assumed >

Plenty of black people though.
Edit: got those who can’t be bothered reading the stupid Reddit argument below, Charlie was originally written as black, and his family was dirt poor. >

What do you think that the black population in the US (or any country that a British candy maker would have exported to in the 1920s for that matter) was in the 1920s? >

About 10,000,000, according to Wikipedia. >

Sounds right ... a little less than 10% of the population.
And how; do you think, many were in a socioeconomic position to spend money on imported European chocolate. >

Why don’t you answer your own question? I was responding to your point about the lack of “globalization” in the US, not about purchasing power of black Americans in 1920. >

No, you're were taking a position to insinuate that I was taking a position. So that you could seem or just feel superior in the "great virtue" that comes with micro-focusing on meaningless and disjointed facts out of context on your socials, because no one usually objects or bothers to call you out on your bullshit. 
My next point would've been about how familiar with the black experience in 1920s America, do you think that Roald Dahl (a British writer in the 1960s) was, to be able to confidently include that in his book. >

paywall >

Your point is taken, but it was four kids of the same age, and one peanut-sheller trying to keep a terrible job. >

They weren't all found by kids, one of them had their father buy up all the stock and have his factory open them all and get a ticket, Agustus was eating loads of chocolate anyway, so his was a high chance relative to others.  Except for charlie, they had systems in place to find them. Maybe Mike as well. But the film doesn't show that, >

Convenient or just common sense? Look at the demographics of the time, things make sense when you use logic. >

My Chinese mum held onto dried plumbs for 6 months when she was a kid. That’s how deprived of decent sweets China was in the 70’s >

The Oompah Lumpah uprising will spare none of the bourgeoisie. >

If you ask that monster grandpa Joe, he would disagree. And crop dust you with cabbage farts as he waltzed away. >

Oompa loompas are just for show. Behind the colourful fake factory, the real factory is dark, damp, cold, and staffed by migrant children >

In the original book, Oompa Loompas were explicitly described as dark-skinned African pygmies who insisted on wearing their native clothing of skins and leaves- and the kids went naked.  
He found them in their native country being preyed upon constantly by "Whangdoodles, the Hornswogglers, and the Snozzwangers" and offered to take them to live in his factory and they were happy to be paid in cacao beans.
Willy Wonka is in a TON of legal trouble.  Massive immigration and labor law violations, arguably slavery, is only the start.  Child endangerment, manslaughter/negligent homicide, unsafe food handling practices, environmental pollution, and running  illegal sweepstakes.  
Plus, seeing how the factory is a huge toxic pit of civil and criminal legal entanglements, he tries to just give his illegal sweatshop away to a random kid in an attempt to walk away from it and leave Charlie responsible for the consequences- which, legally, won't work >

Did Augustus even speak? I remember his mom had a super thick accent. >

He did, but it was minimal dialogue. I think he offers Charlie some chocolate and makes a comment about eating more candy >

It's the same premise behind all the aliens invading Earth on Doctor Who starting with the UK. >

I always thought it was strange that they were all conveniently found before the date on the ticket. Charlie's was found just the day before. >

They were all from countries where speaking English is very commonplace >

It’s like the McDonalds Monopoly game, it was rigged from the start. >

I mean… he was the one who sent them out, he could’ve only sent the 5 to certain stores, or paid the owners of those store to specifically hand them to the people who got them, or any number of other things. We have no clue how deep wokna’s plan goes