Derek, I don't think the notion of "foreigner" is entirely out. For those of us - now in our eighties - who remember the Second World War and the Cold War that followed - recognize that the Western World was torn for a century between "Us" and "They". First, it was the Second World War, "The Allies" vs "Nazi Germany" and then it was the Cold War, "The Western Democratic Powers" vs "The Communist Soviet Union". The strident life-or-death winners/losers character of these century long confrontations left permanent marks on Anglophone (British-American-Australian) cultures:
1) on the special role of science and technology in winning the two Wars and the immense support for science that was supported in the interests of military and economic/political victories; and
2) on the deep suspicion that, for half a century after the victory, remained of (what were thought to be) the 'philosophical/humanistic' seeds of the 'enemy culture' that had validated, on the one hand, the genocide of the Holocaust, and on the other, the genocides of Communism. 
I personally recall the emphasis that the US government placed on any research that promised to increase the global power of the Allies (I had some US and Geman grants myself in the fifties&sixties that aimed at "growth in knowledge" in the interests of the race against Soviet Communism) and, the socio-cultural orthodoxy that was demanded of researchers. These goals also created in the 20th century the atmosphere that empowered the scientific and cultural emigres from central Europe to the US, while incidentlly throwing suspicion on those who remained in Germany and Eastern Europe during the two wars. It is then not surprising that only one philosophical school, logical empiricism - imported by emigres from the Vienna/Berlin Circle - became the monopoly standard for the philosophy of science in the US, while Heisenberg - the most philosophically cultured and yet the least studied of all the great physicsits of his day - was treated with great suspicion, as indeed was his friend, the great philosopher, Martin Heidegger.
We seem still to be in thrall to the socio-historical traces of our immediate past. With such a multi-generational history, it should not surprise anyone if  analytic philosophy (Anglophone philosophy - as it is called in Germany) were described as the philosophy of epistemological robotics. Continental philosophy - the humanistic trend in 20th century German philosophy stemming from Dilthey and Nietzsche - would then in contrast be called the philosophy of ontological consciousness.
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Patrick