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This is a library study of university students' instant poems about their attitudes toward pluralism in Indonesia. The goals of the study are to identify the tones of the poems and then trace the microaggressive attitudes toward pluralism through the metaphorical expressions found in the poems. The study of the poems has revealed that microaggressions may take diverse unrealized forms, such as seeing difference as wrong or sinful, considering the "rainbow" of diversity as piteous, viewing intermingled mixtures of different backgrounds with ambiguous attitudes, the impossibility of having a real sense of "we" belonging, fictiveness of superior ethnicity and both sides of microaggression, disempowering diversities with too many differences, merely teaching and telling of diversity without modeling, surfacing of microaggressive domination, and questioning the fiction of authentic ethnicity. All issues have been proven to be the new faces of modern and subtle racism and chauvinism with their growing underground power to reject diversity.

This study examines the comparison between English Department students’ emotional intelligence (EQ), their self-esteem and their academic achievement. Twenty-two students participated in the research by answering EQ test and two Self-Esteem questionnaires. The result shows that there is no relation between students’ GPA and their self-esteem and EQ. This means that academic ability does not correspond to social skills. Though most students have average EQ and self-esteem, one student has High EQ, High Self-esteem and a 2.95 GPA (out of 4).