3.He’s a citizen of the world
The son of a South African astromechanical engineer and a Canadian-born model, Elon Reeve Musk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, in the 1970s. In the middle of apartheid. As he turned 18, he tried to convince his parents, now divorced, to move to the United States or Canada to get closer to his dream to join the silicon valley.
After obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother, he moved to Canada, and then the united states where he applied for his citizenship obtained in 2002. He considers himself a patriot of these countries and likes to think of himself more as a citizen of the world than as a citizen of a single country.
The world has no borders for him, and he thinks more in terms of planet than in terms of a country or continent.
