re: #177 Odie Hugh Manatee

Me: There isn’t one word encapsulates how I feel about my country, I’m pro America and that’s it.

You can use the word patriot. Orwell wrote a fairly detailed essay on nationalism versus patriotism (“Notes on Nationalism”):

“By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.”