Ok all you Americans, why are there no good American philosophers who in the same league as all those German/French philosophers?

Ok so they might have had a few hundred years start in terms of culture/sophistication/being civilised and sure, you've still some way to go in that regard but you should have least produced one by now..
Post a pic of a famous (not modern though, I should have mentioned not modern) and you will get

[b]BA[/b]

and if you tell me his name too (because it's probably going to be a guy) you will get a upvote/generally positive seeming emoticon thingy).