Disgust is a collective practice requiring imagined community agreement
Evidence
When part of an acceptable emotional canon of a community, disgust is a platform for reconfi guring people’s worth and interpersonal and intergroup relations. Disgust is a special type of affective practice; one needs to construct grounds for being disgusted; one cannot do it as an individual, one needs to imagine oneself as belonging to a community that feels the same way (that is, disgusted) in relation to a specifi c group of people. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 696
Categorization
- QUESTION: Disgust is normally treated as the most private, bodily emotion — the claim that it structurally requires community backing is worth chasing further.