Is it fair to say that American Jews have failed to retain Judaism?

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In your opinion, and I'm asking other Jews especially American Jews, do you think it's fair the American Jewish community has failed in instilling Jewishness, Jewish identify and everything that comes with it in the younger Jewish generations?

Why are young American Jews so different to young British and French Jews? Most of the American Jews I see don't care about being Jewish, it's a totally irrelevant aspect of who they are, and most don't feel any connection with Israel. Young Jews in Britain and France are the complete opposite.

Similarly, most American Jews do not go to Jewish daily schools, but most British Jews go to Jewish day schools even though most are secular Jews in Britain.
I am not really speaking about religion as well. I am speaking about Jews strictly as a ethnic group, culture and society here.
 
My father is Jewish but he doesn't celebrate any Jewish holidays; although he has shared some of the Jewish traditions with his Christian family (me, my sister, and my mother) such as food (we eat matzoh ball soup in the winter and we go to a Jewish delis occasionally) and some of the other things such as lighting yorsite candles to remember our decaesed family members on their birthdays. I have occasionally seen orthodox Jews walking to the synagogue with their yarmulkes on and their long beards and sideburns; and I live in Atlanta, where you rarely see anything along the lines of that. also, on bus, there is a guy who got permission from the principal to wear his yarmulke to school everyday since we are not allowed to wear hats. overall, i think that it is, in fact, slightly unfair to say that American Jews have failed to retain Judaism because there are the few that embrace it.
 
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