the stereotype was that Indians were weird and boring nerds.
Okay. Fair enough, I missed that because I don't think that's the stereotype for Hindoestanen (Surinami Indians) here in the Netherlands.

Hey, if you want to keep up with this and other kinds of meta in fandom you could watch metafandom, they have posts every few days with links to all kinds of interesting meta, ranging from racism to sexism to privacy to simple things like tagging your fics.