Hours after apologizing for using "Shylocks," Vice President Joe Biden referred to Asia as "The Orient." Many consider "shylock," which refers to the Jewish villain of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, to be anti-Semitic. Biden used the term in a speech this week to refer to unscrupulous home lenders and then admitted it was a “poor choice of words.” At a speech in Iowa on Wednesday, Biden described Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of modern Singapore, as "the smartest man in the Orient."
