The Indian-American duo of Usha Vance and Kamala Harris will challenge stereotypes. Welcome to the new, improved 2024 presidential campaign.

No matter how this plays out, a woman of Indian-American descent will be moving her influence into the White House.

She’ll either be the President of the United States Kamala Harris, or the wife of the next vice president, Usha Chilukuri Vance.

Who prevails depends on how things go in November for Democrats and Republicans.

But this inevitable outcome developed while some of the most conservative politicians in the GOP were grousing about “diversity,” “identity politics” and “DEI hires.”

It’s what happened as their political opposites, self-defined lifelong liberals, continued to see the nation’s racial dynamics primarily in terms of Black people and white people, with others who don’t neatly fit into those categories as an afterthought, if they were thought of at all.

Meanwhile, the nation’s storied history as a “land of immigrants” continued to evolve.

It’s shifted, deepening with rich and complex tones, with immigrants from around the globe — Latinos from a wide range of South American countries, as well as Black people from Nigeria, Liberia and Tanzania.

And South Asians like the immigrant parents from India who gave birth to Vice President Kamala Harris and Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.

We rarely acknowledge that Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing among all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., rising by 81 percent between 2000 and 2019.

Usha Vance’s parents are part of that diaspora. They, like her, are Hindu.

Vice President Harris’s late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was from India. Her father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica. The couple met as graduate students.

The nation will be better off with some forced introspection due to the presence of these second-generation daughters in the national spotlight.

The reactions that each draw — positive and negative — will challenge and hopefully do away with some of the most backward-facing views currently undermining the nation’s future.

The myth of the model minority is one. It’s the belief that some immigrants are more worthy than others, that some are hard-wired (or even genetically superior) and therefore more valuable as workers and producers for the economy.

The contention is as absurd as it is widespread.

But it’s often applied to Asian Americans, along with the assertion that they are smarter from birth, harder working, driven by a fierce “tiger mom” and above all, adept at math and science.

Such views infect public policy — like congressional decisions that slash the numbers of refugees allowed per country annually, or other limits that are placed on green cards, an attempt by policy and law to keep some people out, while allowing others in.

Indian Americans do have some of the highest income levels among American ethnic groups. It’s a direct correlation with the fact that many arrive to attend some of our finest universities. That’s a leg up to success that doesn’t play out for all Asian groups.

Others – Hmong, Vietnamese, Koreans – had different starts in life, with the first generation migrating often without English language skills and with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. It doesn’t mean one group is inherently more intelligent or entrepreneurial.

Usha Vance and Kamala Harris have each achieved, personally and professionally.

They also just happen to have a shared heritage.